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VOL. 2—NO. 24

THE DEATH OF HOFER,

/At Mantua long bad Jain in chaing
The gallant Hofer bound;
Hut now hia day of doom wax come—
‘At motn the deep roll of the drum
‘Resounded o'or'the aoldiered plains.
O Heaven! with what a deed of dole
‘The hundred thousand wronge were crowned
Of trodden-down Tyrdl !

‘With {ron-fettero arms and handa,
The hero moved along.
“His heart was calm, his eye was clear—
Death was for traitor slaves to fear |
‘Fe oft amid bis mountain bands,
Where Inn's dark wintry waters roll,
Hid faced it with his battle-song,
‘The Landwirth of Tyrol.

Anon he passed the fortress wall,
‘And heard the wall that broke
From many a brother thrall within.
“Parowell I” he cried; ‘#oon may you win
Your liberty! God shiell you all.
Lament not mo! I ece my goal.
‘Lament the land that wears the yoke—
‘Your land aod mine, Tyril

So through the tiles of musketeers,
Undauntedly he passed,
Anil stood within the hollow square:
Well might he glance around him there,
Aad proudly think on by-gone yeara |
‘Arnold such eerfe his bannerol,
Thank God! had never braved the blast
On thy green hills, Tyrl!

They bate him kneel; but he with all
A patriot’s trath replied—
“kneel alone td God on high—
Ac thus I stand so dare Tdie,
Asoft I fought so let me fall!
Farewell !—his brenst a moment swoll
With agony he strove to hide—
“My Kaleer and Tyrol!”

No more emotion he betrayed.
‘Again ho bade farewell

‘To Francia and the faithful men

Who gitt his throne, His hands were then
Unbound for prayer, and thus he prayeit

“God of the Free, receive my soul |
And you, #lnves, tire !""” So bravely fell

Thy foremost man, Tyrd

[From the German of Moi

1y Clarence Mangan.

NAPOLEON'S THREE WARNINGS.

The celebrated Fouche, Duke of Otranto,
was retained but a short time, it is well
Known, in the service of the Bourbons, after
their restoration to the throne of France.
He retired to the town of Aix, in Provence,
and there lived in affluent ease upon the
‘gains of his long and busy career. Curiosity
attracted many visitors around this remarka-
ble man, and he was habitually free in com-
Tunicating his reminiscences of the great
events which it had been his lot to witness.
Onone occasion the company assembled in
‘his saloon heard from his lips the following

. story: ¥
figs Adeglees, us Do ypoleon assumedvhe
power and authority of a king, every thing
about him, even in the days of the consulate,

» began to wear a court-like appearance. All
‘the old monarchical habitudes were revived
‘one by one. Among the other revivals of
this kind, the custom of attending mass pre-
vious to the hourof audience, was restored by
Bonaparte, and himself was punctual in his
appearance at the chapel of St. Cloud on
such occasions. Nothing could be more
mundane than the mode of performing these
religious services. The actresses of the opera
were the chorists, and great crowds of busy,
talkative people were in the habit of fre-
quenting the gallery of the chapel, from the
windows of which the First Consul and Jose-
phine could be seen, with their suites and
friends, The whole formed merely a daily
exhibition of the consular court of the peo-

ple.

PIAt ons particular time the punctuality of
Bonaparte in his attendance on mass Was
rather distressing to his wife. The qui
and jealous Josephine had discovered that
the eye of her husband was too much direc-
ted ta 3 window in the gallery, where there
regularly appeared the form and face of s
young girl of uncommon beauty. The chest-
hut tresses, brilliant eyes, and graceful fi-
gure of this personage, caused more uneasi-
ness to the Consul’s wife, as the stranger's
glances were bent no less often upon Bona-
parte than his were upon her.

Who is that young girl ?”” said Josephine
one day at close of service ; ‘‘what can she
seek from the First Consul? Tobserved her
to drop a billet just down at his feet. He
picked it up; T'saw him.”

No one could tell Josephine who the ob-
ject of her notice precisely was, though there
‘were some who declared her to be an emi-
grant Jately returned, and one who probably
was desirous of the intervention of the First
Consul in favor of her family.

With such guesses as this the consul’s wife.
was obliged to rest satistied for the time.

After the audience of that same day had
passed, Bonaparte expressed a wish for a
drive in the park, and accordingly went out,
accompanied by his wife, his brother-Jo-
seph, Generals Duroc and Cambaceres, and

_ Hortense Beauharnois, wife of Louis Bona-
parte. The King of Prussia had just pre-
sented Napoleon with a superb set of horses,
four in number, and these harnessed to an
open chariot forthe party. The Consul took
it into his head to drive in person, and
mounted into the coachman’s place.’ The
Chariot set off, but just as it was turning into
the park, it went crash against a stone at the
gate, and the First Consul was thrown to
the ground. He attempted torise, butagain
fell prostrate in a stunned or insensible con-
dition. Meanwhile, the horses sprang for-
ward with the chariot, and were only stopped
when Duroc, at the risk of his life, threw
himeelf out and seized the Joose reins. Jo-
‘sephine was taken out in a swooning state,
‘The rest of the party quickly returned to the

»First Consul, and carried him back to his
spartments. ' On recovering his senses fully,
the first thing which he did was to put his
hand into his pocket and pull out the slip
‘of paper dropped at his feet in the chapel.
Leaning over his shoulder Josephine read
these. words—"Do not driye out in your
carringe to-day.””

“This can haye no allusion to our Jate ac-
cident,’’ said Bonaparte, ‘'No one could
foresee that I was to play the part of coach-
man to-day, or that { should be awkward
enough to drive against a sténe. Go, Du-
roc, and examine the chariot.’”

Duroc obeyed. Soon after he returned,
yery pale, and took the First Consul aside.

“Citizen Consul,” said he, “had you not
struck the stone, and stopped our drive, we
had all been lost !""

“How ?"” was the reply.

‘Phere was in the carriage, concealed be-
hind the back seat, a bomb—a real massive

—kindled |’ Things had been so arranged,
that in a quarter of an hour we should have
been scattered among the trees in the park
of St. Cloud. There must be some treache-
ry close at hand. Fouche must be told of
this—Dubois must be warned."”

“Not a word to them!’ replied Bona-
parte. ‘The knowledge of one plot but en-

tire a aucnpd. Test Tostphine, remain
ignorant of the danger she has ae Hor-

tense, Joseph, Cambaceres,—tell none of
them; and let the government journals say
not a word about my fall.”

The First Consul was then silent for some
time. At length he said" Daroc, you
come to-morrow to mass in the cbapel, and
examine with attention a young girl whom
Ishall point out to you. She will occupy
the fourth window in the gallery on the
right. Follow her home, or cause her to be
followed—and bring me intelligence of her
nature, her abode, and her cireumstances. It
will be better to do this yourself, I would not
have the police interfere. Have you taken
care of the bomb and removed it 2?”

“T have, Citizen Consul.”

“Come, then, let us again drive in the
park,” said Bonaparte.

The drive was resumed, but on this ecca-
sion the coachman was allowed to fulfil his
own duties.

On the morrow the eye of more than one
mn was turned to the window in the gal-

But the jealous Josephine sought in
vain for the elegant figure of the young girl.
She was not there. The impatient First Con-
sul, with his confident Duroc, were greatly
annoyed at her non-appearance, nnd small
was the attention paid by them to the ser-
vices that day. ‘Their anxiety was fruitless,
‘The girl was seen at mass no more,

‘The summers of Napoleon were chiefly
spentat Malmaison; the winters at St. Cloud
andthe Tuileries. Winter had come on,
and the First Consul had been holding Court
in the great apartments of the last of these
palaces. It was the 3d of the month, which
the republican well culled nérose, and, in the
evening, Bonaparte entered his carriage to
go to the opera, accompanied by his aid-de-
camp Lanriston, and Generals Lannes and
Berthjer. The vehicle was about to start,
when a female, wrapped ins black mantle,
rushed out upon the Place Garrousel,
made her way into the middle of the guards
about to accompany Napoleon, and held
forth a paper to him, saying :

“Citizen Consul! Citizen Consul !—read
—read !"”

Bonaparte, with that smile which Bour-
riene describes as so irresistible, saluted the
petitioner, and stretched out his hand for
the missive.

“A petition, madame 2” said he inquiring-
ly; and then’continued, ‘Fear nothing ; I
Shall peruse it, and sce justice done.”

“Citizen Consul !"’ cried the woman, im-
ploringly joining her hands.

What she would haye further said was
lost. The conchman, who, itwas afterwards
said, was intoxicated, gaye the lash to his
horses, and off they sprung with the speed
of lightning. Napoleon, throwing into his
hat the paper he had received, remarked to
his companion :

“T could not well see her figure, but I
think the poor woman is young.”

ightful detonation was heard, ming-
ling with and followed by the crash of bro-
ken windows. The infernal machine had
exploded | Uninjured, the carriage of the
Consul, and itsAnmates, were whirled with
undiminished rapidity to the opera. Bona-
parte entered his box with a serene brow
and unrufiled deportment. He saluted, as
usual, the assembled spectators, to whomthe
news’ of the explosion came ‘with all the
speed which rumor exercises upon occasions.
‘All were stunned and stupified; Bonaparte
alone was perfectly calm. He stood with
crossed arms, listening attentively to. the
oratorio of Hayda, which was executed on
that eyening. Suddenly, however, he re-
membered the paper putin his hands. He
took it out, and read these lines :
“(Tn the name of Heayen, Citizen Consul,
do not goto the opera to-night; if you do

go, pass not through the street St, Nicholas.’”

bomb, and with a slow match attached to it

| held the paper to hi

: The warning came, in some respects, too
jate,
On reading these words, the First Consul
chanced to raise his eyes. Exactly opposite
to him, in a box inthe third tier, sat the
young girl of the chapel of St. Cloud, with
joined hands, seeming to utter ae ers of
gratitude for the escape which had takei

place. Her head had no coyerin,
Howing asl beautifq? chestant-hair
person was wrapped in s dark mantle, which
the consul recognized as identical with that
worn by the woman who had delivered the
paper to him at the carriage door. '' Go,”
said Bonaparte, quictly but quickly to
Lannes, ‘*go to the box exactly opposite to
us on the third tier. You will find a young
girl in a black mantle. Bring her to the
Tuileries. I must see her; and without
maising his eyes, but to make Lannes certain
of the person, he took the general’s arm,
and said, pointing upward, ‘See there—
apk

Bonaparte stopped suddenly. The girl
was gone; no black mantle was to be seen.
Annoyed ‘at this beyond measure, he hur-
riedly sent off Lannes to intercept her. It
was in yain. The boxkeeper bad seen such
an individual, but knew nothing about her.
Bonaparte applied to Fouche and Dubois;
but al} the zeal of these functionaries failed
in discovering her.

Years ran on after the explosion of the in-
fernal machine, and the strange accompany-
ing circumstances tended to make the oceur-
rence more remarkable in the eye of Bona-
parte, To the Consulate succeeded the Em-
pire, and victory after victory marked the
career of the great Corsican, At length the
honrs of change came. Allied Europe
poured its troops into France, and compelled
the Emperor to lay down the seeptre which
had been so long Shaken in terrot over half
the civilizedearth, The isle of Elba became
for n day the most remarkable spot on the
globe; and, finally, the resuscitated empire
fell to pieces anew on the field of Waterloo.

Bonaparte was about to quit France. The
moment had come for him to set foot in the
bark which was to convey him to the Eng-
lish vessel. Friends who had followed the
fallen chief to the very Jnstwere standing by
him to give hima final adieu. He waved
his hand to those prongs and a smile was
on the lips which had recently given the
farewell kiss to the imperial eagle. At this
instant, a woman broke the band that stood
before Napolepn, She was in the prime of
womanhood, nota girl, but young enough to
retain unimpnired that beauty for which she
would at any time have been remarkable
among a crowd of beauties. Her fentures
wore full of anxiety, adding interest to her
appearance eyen at that moment.“ Sire,”
said she, presenting a paper at that moment,
“read | read!” ‘The Emperor took the epis-
tle presented to him, but kept his eye upon
the presenter. He seemed, it may be, to
feel at that instant the perfumed breeze of
the park of St. Cloud, or to hear the chors-
ters chanting melodiously in the chapel, as
he had heard them in other days, Josephine,
Duroc, and all his friends, came haply be-
fore him, and among them the face which
he was wont to see at the fourth window in
the gallery, His eye was now on that coun-
tenance in reality, altered, yet the same.
These illusory recollections were of short
duration, Napoleon shook his head, and
eye, After perusing
its contents, he took the paper between his
hands, and tore it to pieces, scattering the
fragments in the air.

“Stop, sire!” said the woman, ‘follow
the advice ! be warned! it is yet time !""

“No,” replied he; and taking, from hts
finger a beautiful oriental ruby, valuable sou-
venir of his Egyptian campaigns, held it out
to the woman. She took it, kneeling and
kissing the hand which presented it. "Turn-
ing his head, the Emperor then stepped into
the boat, which waited to take him to the
vessel. Not long afterward he was pining
on the rock of St. Helena.

‘Thus, of three warnings, two were useless
because negicctadl until the danger had oc-
curred, and the third—which prognostica-
ted Napoleon's fate if once in the power of
his adyersaries—the third was rejected.

“But who was this woman, Duke of
Otranto ?””

replied Fouche, ‘I know not with
certainty, The Emperor, if he knew ulti-
mately, seems to have kept the secret.”

- Albthat is known respecting the matter
is, that a female related to St. Regent, one
of the authors of the explosion of the street
Suing Nicholas, died at the hospital of Hol
Din 1837, and that around her neck was

er sus gded, by a silk ribbon, the exquisite
py 3 talicuby gt Napolean. 4.

A QUEEN'S DAY.

| The April number of Harper's Magazine
‘contains the following sketch of the way in
Which Queen Victoria spends her time :

« Queen Victoria rises at half past 6 o'clock
jh the summer, and half past seven in the
winter, After the toilet and morning ser-
vice in the chapel of the palace, she break-
fasts. Coffee, bread, butter, eggs, and cold
meat, constitute the usual repast. One of
two ladies in waiting and an equerry have
the privilege of partaking the morning meal
with the royal family. Breakfast over, the
Queen sallies forth to walk on the slopos at
Windsor, or to the gardens of the palace,
and generally visits, when at, Windsor, the
farm or aviary, looking at her horses and
examining the aquarium.

Re-entermg her dwelling, she goes into
the nursery or tothe rooms in which the
princes and princesses are going through
their studies; then glancing at the Times
and Morning Post, she enters her library
and receives the Muster of the Household.
This oflicer lays before her Majesty s memo-
Tandum of all the letters and applications he
Nas received, addressed to the Queen, and
reports how he has disposed of them. He is
allowed a considerable latitude in regard to
the dispensation of the monarch’s chariti
for, of course, the Queen cannot herself in
stitute inquiries into the deserts of the nu-
merous applicants. . On the departure of the
Ma&ter ot the Household, the Lord Steward's
deputy enters to receive orders as to the in-
yitations that shall be issued to persons of
mefit and distinction to visit her Majesty.
‘These persons arrive to dine on one day,
remain all the next day enjoying the indi-
vidual attention of one or more of the imem-
bers of the houscbold, and return home on
the third day. These three days are call-
ed the days of ‘ Rest," ‘ Reception,
|and:* Departure,”

At eleven o'clock the despatch-boxes of
the principal Secretaries of State arrive, or
are brought by the ministers themselves,
There is one fro the Foreign Minister, one
fromthe War Minister, one from the Lords
of the Admiralty, and’ one from the Home
Sceretary, with supplemental box from
the Premier, who'is either First Lord of the
‘Treasury or Chancellor of the Exchequer.

‘The box of the Foreign Seeretary receives
primary attention. It contains précis, epre-
fully written and signed by the Secretary or
one of the Under Secretaries, of all the cor-
respondence thaf has recently taken place

spatches, if her wish in this respec!
been anticipated. It is a fiction to say that
a constitutional soverei “can do no
wrong.” In her alone <d the power
to declare war and make peace, though the
responsibility is borne by the Premier.
Tlence it becomes her duty to wateh the
progress of every discussion, and to stop,
ere it be too lute, the adoption of any policy
which may compromise the peace of the
nation.

‘Phe Foreign Secretary's box being closed,
that of the War Minister receives attention.
This box, in time of, peace, contains a re-
port ofall that has been done in respect to
new military inventions, and alterations in
the eything and equipping of the troops;
recommendations of certain general officers
for important military commands, staff situ-
ations, or colonial governments ; and a li
of all the promotions and appointments it
proposed to make. These latter are in-
scribell on large sheets of paper, and if there
is nothing objectionable in any of the candi-
dates for preferment, the Queen attaches her
sign-manual to each sheet, The Lords of

the Admiralty make a communication corre-
sponding with that of the War Secretary.

‘The Home Secretary's box contains war-
mats and patents for the Queen’s signature,
which warrants confer judicial or ecclesias:
tical appointments upon the higher members
of the bar and the clergy, or are the signals
for the execution of great criminals. It is
always a subject of great sorrow to the
Queen whenthe Home Secretary does not
see reason for recommending her to exer-
cise the royal prerogative of meroyy ‘Tu’
consign a fellow-creature to eternity is ro-
yolting to her Christian spirit, and espe-
cially when that fellow-creature is a wo-
man. Indeed, since the last paroxysm of
anguish which 'the Queen endured on this
account, it has been customary to assume
that a murderess is a lunatic, and to confine
her for life.

‘The public affairs of the nation at an end,
the Queen now receives visitors, who have
either been specially invited, ‘or persons
who have been honored with her ‘‘ com-
mands" toattend the palace. Among these
latter are artists or publishers, Who haye rare
or novel works to show to her Majesty,
or her likeness to take ; persons entrusted
with presents for the aviary, foreigners with
special introductions from their own sove-
reigns, tradesmen with articles which
the Queen is desirous of purchasing,
&e, After these folks haye been dis-
missed, the royal family take their lunch,
at which the” Queen “eats and drinks
heartily. The horses and carriages are
then-brought to the door, and her Majesty
then rides or drives out for three or four
hours, frequently taking the opportunity of
visiting some of the nobility, the Duchess of
Cambridge, the Duchess of [yerness, or even
(in the country) poor but worthy people
who are contined by sickness. Her Majesty’s
kindness to the suffering of her own sex is
proverbial. It is on record that when Mrs,
Warner, a tragic actress of excellent cha-
racter, Was ill of a disease which wltimately
carried her to her graye, the Queen sent a
carriage every day that she might have the
benefit of pure air, On her return home the
Queen spends an hour in her private boudoir
or library, and then dresses for dinner.

A dinner atthe palace has always been a
stately, dreary, tedious affair. The table
service is of course superb—gold plate,
Seyres porcelain, alabaster vases, flowers,
brilliant chandeliers, servants in scarlet
coats and powdered ‘heads, a military band
performing in an ante-room, and’ many
Jadies and gentlemen at table in full dress
costume. A profound silence reigns through-
out the meal, only broken by the voice of
the Queen addressing herself to one or other
of her guests, who are expected to confine
themselyes toa direct reply. General con-
yersation is carried on in whispers only. A
great variety of wines are drank at the royal
tuble, the Queen confining herself chietly to
German (Rhine) wines.

After dinner the party adjourns to the
drawing-rooms, and there the Queen casts
aside all ceremony, and gives herself up to
innocent pleasures, and the promotion of
the enjoyment of her guests and family. If
the Pay be not too large, a chamber con-
cert or dance is improvised, the Queen her-
self taking a prominent part in the singing
and dancing The objects to the stranger
in the snit of drawing-rooms are numerous,
und the Queen is not slow to invite atten:
tion to and explain them—a_hospituble
office, in which she is cordially supported
by the princes und princesses, and the ladies
and noblemen of the household. ‘There are
inagnificent vases ; statues of marble, bronze,
and alabaster; glorious pictures by the best
masters, ancient and modern; portfolios of
engravings, musical instruments, curious
articles of vertu, &c. All is life and abandon.
At half past eleven, or earlier, the Queen
retires, gracefully courtesying to the com:
pany, the ladies in waiting and the lady
guests acknowledging the obvisance by
sinking to the very groind,

a

Exp ov THY Wontp.—Eoe dave of the end of
the world Ja astlsfactorily thxed lor the year 1388,
There ia no ancient prediction, repeated by Nostra.
damus io bis“ enturles,"” Which asya that W ieu

t. George shall erucily the Lord,
phall ralse him, and St John shall ;
ston, the ead of the World aball come. In the ven

IN THE WOODS.

Therefore, at Pentecost, which bringa

The spring, cloth’d lie a bride,
‘When nestling buds uafold thelr wiass,
And bishop'e-<caps have golden rlaga,
Musing upon many things,

T sought the woodlands wide.
‘The green trees whisper’d low and mild;
TEM EEA SEU Of Oy cat

ey were my playmates when A ol
Aug rock'd me {a thelr arma so wild 5]
Still they look’d at me and smiled,

As I{T were a boy 5
Anil ever whisper'd wild and low,

"Come, be a ehild once more !””
Anil waved thelr long arms to and fro,
‘And beokoa'd solemnly and slow ;
(Ob, T could not choose but go

Tato the woodlands hoar;
Tato the blithe and breatblog air,

Tato the silent woo,
Solemn and sileat everywhere!
Nature with folded hands seew’d there,
Koeeling at her evening prayer!

Like one La prayer I stood —LonaveLnow,

> DEAD.
Still round the old familfar porch
Hor cherished roses blush and peer,
‘And fill the sunny air with balm,
‘And atrow their petals year by'year.

Nor here within, no touch of chan;

‘The footstool—the embroidered chair
The bookse—the arras on the wall—

The harp—the muric—all are there.

No touch of change! Iclose my oyes—
It cannot bo she comes no more!
Thear the rustling of her dress 5
Thear her footsteps on the floor.
T feel her breath upon my brow 5
T feel her kits upon my cheek—
Down, phantoms of the buried past
‘Down, or my heavy heart must breale

ALEXANDER AND THE COLONEL,

The Emperor Alexander, travelling im
Northern Russia, reached a small town, and,
while they were changing the horses, tools
the whim of going a short distance in ad-
vance. Unaccompanied, wrapped in a mili-
tary overcoat, and without any mark of dis
tinction, he quickly crossed the town, and
arrived ot the suburbs, where the highway
separates into two roads. Not knowing
which of these to take, Alexander approach>
ed a man wrapped like himself in a militas
overcoat, and smoking hig pipe, on the sl
of the last house.

‘“Priend,”’ asked the Emperor, ‘‘ which
of these two roads must I take to reach
Kolouga?”

‘The man with the pipe, astonished that &
mere traveller should dare sddress him so

puffs of amoke, the words: a
“To the right.” + z
“Tbeg your pardon, sir,” said the Ent-

peror, ‘one more question, if you pleasa.’®

“Well?” wai

“ Allow me to ssk you your position im
the army ?””

“Quess,"”

“Perhaps you are a Lieutenant?"

“Higher.”

“Captain?”

“Still higher.”

“Major ?”

“Higher still 2"

“Colonel ?””

» “At last.”

“And now in my turn,” asid the man
with the pipe, certain that he was address-
ing an interior, ‘‘who are you, if you
please 1”

“Guess,” replied the Emperor.

“* Lieutenant ?””

“Go on.""

“ Captain 2”

“Higher.

“ Major ?""

“Try again,”

“ Colonel ?””

“ Again.”

“ General ?””

“You've not reached it.""

‘The man draws the pipe from his mouth.

“Your Excellency, then, is Lieutenant
General.

“You are coming near."”

The Colonel raised his hand to his cay

“Why, then, your Highness is Field Mar
shal?”

“Once more, Colonel."”

“ Bia Imperial Majesty P cried the latter,

his pipe falling and breaking into pieces.

‘The same,” replied Alexander, smiling.

“Ah, sire," exclaimed the officer, falling”

on his knees, ‘pardon me !""

““And what do yoo want me to pardon

you for?” answered the Emperor. ‘asked

you haye shown it to me.

How Gen. Hooun TALKED TO A OAVALRY Bre
ndent, writing from the Army

of the Potoinac, aa)
“Gen. Hooker,
chieftain, Ia the true seove of thatterm He
Eiedone bie utmost to brig uy the spirit of the
my, and his Iabor has been rewarded with the ub
moat gratifying success. The recent brilliant alfalr
at Kelly's Ford, where our cavalry rushed upon the
foo, without firlug a ehot, aud aabered the rebels tx
tholr latreachments, Is but one indication of the
great change he has Wrought. The utter worthlesg=
bees of our cavalry had long been tho standing re
proach of this army, "Who oyer eaw a dead cavak
rymanl! was the derisive Interrogatory from every
branch of the service. Geo. Hooker resolved this
abould cease. He told higchiet of cavalry he would
Bave no more disgraceful ‘surprises.’ Said he to =
brigadier of cavalry, ‘I know the South and I kaow
the North. In polat of skill, of intelligence, aud of
pluck the rebels will not compare with our men, if
they are equally well led. Our roldiera are a better
quality of men. They are better fed, better clothed,
botter armed, aad infinitely better mounted ; for the
rebels are fully hsif mounted on mulcs, aad thelr
aolmals get but tivo rationa of forage’ per week
while ours get coven, Now, with such soldiers, aod
such A cause as we have’ behind them—the best
cause, the most aacred cause siace
—we ought to be invinclble, and, by
be! You have got to stop theas diese
‘surprises!’ I'll have no more of them
fall power over yourolticers, to arn
—whatever you will—oaly you mu
prlaca And, by—, elf, you du
you falr notice, | will relléve the whole of you, and
take command of the cavalry myself!” Toat Ik the
kind of talk for tardy or deliaquent ollicers, and the
rat fruite thereof may be read La the tiash’ait
of gallant sabres at Kelly's Furd. [tia the kiad ot
talk to reform aa army, and to win battles, and to
save a nation, and history will record every Word in
letters of gold)!

Mass acnuaert: iF American
verty raised ite first voice, and where ite youth was
unrtured and sustalacd, there {t etill Lives, in the
sirength of tts mnuhood, sau full ot ito origionl apirtt
1 diecord aud diauaton shall wound it ; (C party reife
and blind ambition shall hawk and tear it; if folly
snd madness, (Cunmasiness uader salutary restealat,
stall succved to & parate It from that Union, by
which nione its exrs"enne te made sure, It will staud
hu the ead, by the wtref that eradle In'which ta to

nr, has shown himeelf to bow

ful cavalry
Tgive you

a
edo it T give

1536 it will happen that Good Friday falls oa S

aecrye Gen Easter sSulaay, on St. Mark's day
aud Holy Taureday or Aecens\en da 4
the feast of St. Jodo the Haptae 1) Wt be al

Anoy was rocked ; | will stretch forth its arma with
whatever vigor it may still retain, over the friends
around it; aod it will fall at las fall tt must,
suild the browtest mouurmeats of (ts own glory, aad.
yo the Vecy # ot of its origin —Dancer Wenstem

familiarly, scornfully let drop, between two

a

A WERK’S SUMMARY OF NEWS

Gov. Sermouk hns addressed the New York
‘Senato a mesengo upon the propoaed law authorizing
Roldiere in the army to voto by proxy, which law,
the Attorney General of the State, Hoa. Daniel S.
Dickioeon, deciares constitutional. The Governor
is of opinion that the Constitution latends theright
Yo vote shall be exercieed only by the elector in
Perron, ne it requires him to vote in hie residentiary
Glestion district.“ Tt would be an Insult nnd injury
Yo the soldier to place the exerolee of thie right upon
& doubtful or unconstitutional law, when it enn be
Teadily eccured to him by a constitutional ament-
ment.” Such a doubtful Iaw, the Governor thinks,
Bught moke diraatrous complications in 5 Presi:
dential ection during a time of war and political
excitement. A constitutional amendment would re-
moyeall doubt and difficulty. Gov, Seymour further
aeclarea that ‘the people of New York will never
consent that their absent brethren 4a the national
Rorvico shall bedebarred, when they discharge the
mont escred duty of the citizen, from the enjoyment
of that entire freedom of opinion which they have,
dy_no emphatic expreseion at the ballot-box, scoured
for themeclyes, and which they will firmly mato-
tain” ;

Some of the Obarleston news, by way of New
‘York, may reasonably be doubted. The Post states
‘hat General Seymour has gone to Washington, to
Urge the removal of Dupont (uupopular with both
voldiers and eatlore), 6s well-ns the prompt reln-
forcement of Hunter, This must be regarded as
‘only a report, Our reliable correspondent at Port
Royal-etntes there has heen showa much Impatience
forthe renewal of the attsck, but no diftioulty what-
ever had qeourred between Hunter and Dupont, Out

pe etill possessed Folly Isand—headquarters at

Stono. Gur correspondent boarded aeven of the

monitors, who made their wag to Port Royal with-

out help, ayd iadirme that they are not much
damaged—the Weehxwken among tho rest Oa
other authority, it ie atated that « countermand,
from Washington, of the attack on Ohnrleston came
too Inte, Hunter, it f* said, bas not relinquished de
alga of offeice. Captain Worden is of epinioa—
nd in,this many officers concur—that the monitor

Heot is Able to batter down Fort Sumpter.

‘A visw dayo since the nei {ron-clad gunboat Choo
taw arrived at the Naval Dépét from St. Louls. Tt
An yot in An untiniehed condition, but in about two
Weeko will be ready for service. The boat ie in-
tended to ho used as ram, and ie provided with a
Jong sharp bow, wilh the jackstatf get back upon the
‘turret, whieh Io placed in the forward part of the
YeaccL Thie'turret will contain four guné—oue 11-
Anch and one Sinch Dahlgren, and one 200 and one
100pound rifled Parrott, Theeo will be placed on 8
revolving table, worked by steam. Berides these
Buns, there will be two smaller pieces alt, and eome
S4ypound howitzera on each side. The Chostaw
han been placed in charge of Licut, Commander
Ramsay.

Reonytxy the New York Boani of Underwriters
made the followiog increase in the rates of In
Rance : From ports cast of Cape of Good Hope, West
Const of Afries, isands in South Atlantic: Ocean,
porte-in Mediterranean, ports on Enst Coast of
South America, and ports in Pacific Ocean to At-
Jantio ports in the United States or North of Europe,
and vice yorss,6 percent. From ports in West In-
ia Islands, Spanieh Main, Central Americ, Mexi-
¢0, Gulf of Mexico, and ports in Europe, north of
Straits of Gibraltar aod not north of Havre,to At:
Jantic portein the United States, and vice veres, 3
percent, From porta in Europe, north of Havre, to
Atlantic ports of United States, and vice versa, 2
percent.

A DILE is before the rebel Congress providing for
san election of the memtors of the next House of

Representatives by gencral ticket. If this law

should pass, the Congreasmen would be elected In
_ the same manner that Presidential electors are now
“ehoren, the ame men belng voted for throughout
“the Stato? The object of changing the law Is to

aecaro a full repretentation froin each rebel State ;
= wherene, under existiog regulations, all Weatera
* “Virginia and the threo couatice on the eastern shore,

‘together with two districts in North Carolina, three
~4n Louisiens, three 1a Tennestee, and one in Flori
~ ds, would be unrepresented, because no clections
“-aould be he}d in those sections.

‘Tue 2d and 3d Divisions of the Army of the
o Frontier pre now encamped within fifteen miles of

©Rolls, Mo., and sre under command of Msjor

General Herron. They are in splendid condition.
They will probably remaio there till about the ist

of May, until the graee has grown eufticlently to

afford food for the animals ured in the eervice of the
~ “army, We may thea look for active operations in

‘Southwestern Missouri ood Arkapeas, and sbaro

encounters, {/ General Price succeeds in orgablziog
‘Any considerable armyat Little Rock,

~Eymny rruranArion is making in the Fourteenth
army corps for the Impending battle in the nelghbor-
hood of Tullahoma) and which canaot uch longer
De delayed. By order of General Roeeeran, shelter
Yente have been distributed to the army, to be sut-
stituted, in care of « movement, for those now in
ture, which are heavy and cumbersome, and difficult
of transportation. The fullest euppiles are rapidly
eoncentrating within eaby accessibility, and, the
rying up of the roads, now rapidly going on, will be
‘the eignal for a movement ou the part of one or the
other of the armies.

APPREHENSION {5 felt for the Eecurity of New
Orleqne. ,One correspondent declaree that the rebela

“Dave 24,000 troops at Port Hudson, 12,000 at Jack-
~‘gon, Miee., 15,000 on the Atebafalaya, and 10,000 nt
* Mobile—daking 4 total of 61,600 men, “who could,

Dy railroad facilities, be concentrated upon New

Orleans in'twelye hours.” In confirmation of the

Belief teginning to prevail at New Orleave that that

elty Ie to be attacked by the rebels, percone arriving

there from Mobile have stated that great preparn.

‘Hons are golng on at Mobile to take Ship Island,

and that troops and traosports for the enterprise aro

ready and walting the command to leave,

Axona the pupera found in the rebel privsteer
which was captured just as it was leaving San Fran-
¢lzco harbor, was an oath in which the pirty takiug
4t bouni! hinicelf, by hie “honor az 8 Southers gen:
Aleman" to keep secret, “even from the wile of hie

=" borom," the piratical echeme. A clrolar was sleo
alscovered providing for the capture of Henicls nnd,
the two forts commanding San Francisco harbor as

A prelitlonry to thé “desire of every Southern

man"'—the "withdrawal of Oalifornia from the now

~“eontemptible Union.””

‘Tay Evansville (Indiana) Journal states that
Doate from Green’ and Qumberiand rivers, loaded

Sowith tobacco, experlence considerable difficulty in
finding ruliiclent room on the wharf to discharge

‘their cargoes. ‘The tobacco accumulates faster than

At'can be removed by the large force of draymen

constautly engaged In hauling {t to the depot. All

;tthe tobacco warehouses are full, and the railrond Is
employed to Ite full eapneity in moving the etaple
Eaatyrar.
~ E Thi fing that Col, Miles lowered when he eurren-
dered Harper's Ferry to Gen, Jackson, of the rebel
army, bas been given to Major Gen. Robert Schenck,
who has sent it to the War Department. 1 wna
reserved from rebel pollution by a loyal Irish lady,
ire. McKissick, who kept # boarding-house at the
Ferry at the time of the eurrender, She kept it
‘eonceuled during the rebel ocupstion amoog /her
skirte, and avolded search by abusing the Yankees,

Onvens bave been Issued by Governor Yates,
under authority of the War Department, to raise tea

~ companies of infantry for the purpose of guard, aud

- protection of the State of Iilinois from hostile ag.

igreaslon, to serve for three years. ‘The twenty thou-
Band men for the defence of Kentucky are also being
alee, oni! a body of troopa for the defence of the
Indinoo line, with the troops for the defence of
Mecouri, will Incrense the army nearly 60,000 men.

Fuox North Carolina we hear that Foster suc
eceded su passing the rebel blockade, and arrived at
Newtein on the lth, General Heckman, with his
briga‘e from Hilton Head, hnd been eent to rein
foro jim, From Sutfolk it {s reported that we out |
Sumber theenemy, are strongly eptreached, and that
‘there \wil) be no great battlo unless Gen. Peck makes
tho advance

‘Tux rebel olficere who got so badly whipped st)
Souterset, Ky. have been arrested by Confederate
authority, and cent to Knoxville for court martial.
‘At the oaine battle, the 7th Ohlo Cavalry captured
ag (com Scots rebel cavalry, made from a «ilk
dress of one of Faletat® Morshall’s daughters, and
preeented by her only about three weeke providus
40 its capture.

‘Pu Democratic majority of the Delaware Legis-
ature have passed a. tyrannical. free-negto law —
fining negroes for attending political meetings or
for sing fire atms ; forvidding negroes to preach ;
‘of any negro who leaves the State for five days, to
yoturn under a penalty of $60 fine, or slavery if the
flue Ja not pald. ‘There are only 1,768 elayes in ithe
State to 110,118 free Inhabitants. oll

Ons of the men sho encouraged the bread riot in
Richmond on the 2d inst. wax Dr. Thos. M, Palmer,
who waa a member from Jefferson county in |the
Florida Convention that took that State out of|the
Vnlon. Since,the breakiog out of the rebellion he

uns been in the rervice of the Confederacy, He 1

now a prisoner in Richmond. sft }

FORNEY’S WAR PRESS.-PHILADELPHIA, SATURDAY, APRIL 25

, 1863.

Goverxon Conrix, in view of the extgency of
the public service, hna euggcated to the President n
plan of garrieoning the defences of Washington with
militia, that the veteran soldiers now in that de
partment might be spared for more Important and
preesiog duties Iu the fleld, To this end, he ottered
to forward here twenty thousand militia, and asked
that about five thousand volunteers who haye had
the necessary experience be distributed among the
militin, to reaver the Iatter force equivajent for all
practical purposes, to the same number of volun-
tecre sent to the field, It is not known whether
thie patriotic offer haa been accepted, but it mects
with the favor of the President.

Tine wasn mutiny on General Ellet’s fing-boat,
Autocrat, on the Mississippl, a few days since.
After several hours’ confinement and fasting, the
mutiocers sent a committee of three from their com-
pany to intercede with General Ellet for thelr re
leaee ; butthe General sent them worl that they
should remain in trons until they were court mar-
tialed, and that if death was awarded they should
be shot, He aleo added that, eooncr than allow A
mutiny to go unpunished aboard one of his vessels,
be would blow her up with every soul aboard, not
counting hie own life anything in the effort to main-
tain that perfeot discipline, without which an army,
or any portion of It, Was utterly uscleas to the cause
avd to the country.

‘Tnx Government has purchased the gunboat
“ Dal-Ching,"’ which was bullt im New York for Ad-
miral General Ward, for service under the Chinese
revolutiopary Government, Her dimenelons are aa
follows: length, 175 fect ; with, 29 feet; depth of
hold, 14 fect; draught of water, 11 fect; measure-
ment, 728 tons, She has a direst nctlog engine,with
two 20-inch cylinders, and 26-inch stroke. She {a
-an exceedingly pretty veesel, and will be put into
active service a: once.

Tne following arrivals,” noticed in the late
Oharleston paper, show that the great bombard
ment there attracted many gentlemen of the mili-
tary art as spectatora: The following officers are at
the Mills House: General Gustavus W. Smith, Ge-
neral James Jones, General D. F, Jamison, General
B. Huger nud members of his otalf, General W. H.
T. Walker and staff, Oaptain W. F. Lynch, 0. N,,
Generals H.R, Jackeon and Augustus R. Wright,
and Colonel E. J. Walker,

‘Tie action of the Nicaraguan Government In in-
torfering with the Central American Transit Com
pany’s steamer, having been brought to the atten-
tion of the propor Authorities, it hao been decided
that there has been no violation of the contract on
the part of the company, and thereforp, under the
trenty existing between the two Governments, am-
ple protection will be given against any future inter-
ference by that Governnient.

AN army correapondent writes, under date of near
Falmouth, Va,, April 13: “It will be no eecret to
say that General Stoneman’s cavalry corps has
started on an important expedition, accompanied by
such artillery and infantry aa may be needed to co-
operate in thelr enterpries. Great results.are ex-
peoted, of which the public will In due time be In-
formed. Their subsistence, forage, and ammuni-
tion were conveyed on the backs of pack mules.

Apvices from Kentucky, dated April 10, atste
that Gen, Nagle’s brigade, including the 6th and oth
New Hawpshire, third division, ninth army corpa,
movei! from Lexington, on the Sth’Jnatant, and
marched twenty milea to Winchester, where it re-
mains for the present. It is supposed the (ninth
army corps Will keep nlong near the borders of the
State, to repel rebel Invasiona if attempted.

‘AN expedition against the 'Snake " Indians, in
Oregon, is planned for this summer. Seventy trant-
portation wagons and four hundred mules have been
purchaeed for the usc of the expedition. ‘The ruth-
Jese elayers of women in that region will most ae-
suredly be cleared out by the Oregonians, who dis-
play much enterprise in Indian hunting, as well a3
in everything clee they undertake,

On Monday night # member of a Pennsylvania
regiment on picket complained of feeling IL The
surgeon of the regiment was called, when there was
some whispering instituted. The sick soldier was a
woman, enceinie, of course. The result of the sur
geon's work wae the delivery of a fine boy. Gen.
Josh, Owen named the child Picket Falmouth
Ellsworth.

‘Our troops have crossed the Rappahannock un-
der Generals Stoneman, Averill, McGregg, and Sir
Percy Wyndham, and have advanced into Culpeper
county, Virginia. The main body of the rebel Army
of Virginia ts now operating. near Newbern, Sut
folk, and Williamsburg, The rebela are sending
troopa to the Southwest daily by raliroad,

Cononnt Puiuiirs reports that his expedition
against the Oreek Indians, employed by the rebels
an the region of the Upper Arkauana river, bas been,
crowned with succees, He bas cleared the whole
country of rebels, and taken posecasion of Fort Gib-
s0n,which hae been held by the enemy alnce the
commencement of the war.

Guy. Bonxsive bas caused the arrest of two young
ladies for giving aid and comfort to the enemy in
Kentucky. Their namea are Misa Fanny Battles,
daughter of the rebel Brig. Gen, O, Battles, and Miss
Hattle Booker, both from Tenuessec, and both are
now enjoying plain food at Camp Ohsse, Columbus,
Ohio.

Gun. Foster had with -him Inst week, at Wash-
ington, N. C., where he is besieged, the following
troopa: Splinola’s and Prince’a brigades, comprising
the Pennsylvania regiments of Colonels McKibbin,
Dyer, Bear; the 12th New York; the 167th New
York ; aod the let North Carolina Volunteers.

ACOBRESPONDENT ofthe Nashville Union,who has
‘been within the rebel lines, writes: Morgan's full
logs at the battle of Milton has never been pub-
Hehed. He had twenty-six commissioned oflicers
killed and wounded, His whole loes was not lees
than five hundred officers and men, killed and
wounded."

‘Twuske was quite a serious riot in Halifax, N.S.
on Thursday evening, between the troops of the
garridon and the citizens. The mob was finally dis-
pereed by a detachmentof the royal artillery, alter’a
number of perons had been wounded and consider-
able damage done to property.

Oyun sixty thousand tons of ice have been taken
out of the Kennebee, Mc., during the ecaron, most of
which J8 to go to New Orleans and Havana. Con-
tractors have agreed to deliver some twenty-five
thousand tons at the former city at twenty-five dol-
Inra per ton,

RicuMonp papers, of the 16th inst, report that
our troops still remato {n detachments on the Sen
{elnnde near Oharleston, protected by gunboat
They aleo report the destruction of two gunboate
and three transports, on the Cumberland river, by
the rebel cavalry under Gen, Wheeler,

Gex. Suits arrived in San Frauelsco oa the
20th ultimo, and made an impromptu speoch at the
Uriental Hotel, the same evening. He has realigned
hie commission in the United States army, and has
no conneetion with the military department of the
Government.

On» day Jast week a man attempted to get outaide

of the Federal linea, heyond Murfreesboro, Tean.
He was bailed by the pickets, but endenyored to es
cape, He was fired at, nnd killed. Upon his person
wae found a plan of the fortifications near that
place.
GuXeRAL SteeLe has destroyed a large quantity.
of corn and bacon from Texas, deaigned for the gar-
neon st Vicksburg. Thé tléet of Admf{ral‘Farragut
prevented its shipment to its destination, and it was
stored away temporarily.

PuncuAsuns are looking more after domestic
stocks than they, were a few days ago—manufac-
turiog, railroad and bank shnrea, it ts predicted, will
tule higher for tome time to come than they have
for a week or two past,

‘Tue agent of Mr, A. T. Stewart, of New York,
has chartered the brig Jeasie Banteld, which he will
load entirely at bis own expense, with a full cargo
of corn and provisions, for the benetlt of the dis-
treaved people of Ireland,

Tur Medical Departmentatatistics show the num-
ber of rebel prisoners who have dled in Union hospi-
tal, since the commencement of the war, to be owr
five thousand, Inatead of two thousand, aa published
a few days since,

Fount#en regiments of militia} have been order-
ed to be raised by the Governor of Missouri for
State defence, If volunteers do not offer, a draft
from the State militis will be ordered,

Donino-the recent attack on the train near La-
vergae, the rebels killed two of thelr own commis-
sioned officers, who were prisonera on the ears, anit
wounded several rebel privates,

Ove of Austin's Powder Company's mills was
blown up,on the morning of the 10th, at. Akron,
blo. One man, by the name of Daniel Gramoa,
was, torn to plecea.

Micuioan bas undoubtedly gone Republican in
her late judicial clestion by a large increase of her
|, majorityTaat fall. It is probably about 10,000. + |

Tux Ohio Legisiature has adjourned, Among the
imany bills pasacd was one to provide for taking tho)
vote of the Ohio soldiers in the army. ,

‘Ti tenth andual ecasion of the National Typo-
graphjcal Union will commence in! Oleveland, Ohio,
on the 4th of May. 1

‘Tu Massachusctts colored regiment has six hun-
dred nad Kixty-two'men on ite rolls, |

SOUTH ATLANTIC SQUADRON.
DETAILS OF THE AFFAIR AT CHARLESTON,

(Speelul Correspondence of The Pres}
MONDAY!S OPERATIONS.
On Boann tHe NANTASKET,
Ory OWARLESTON Hannon, April 6, 1863.

At Inst we are faco to {ace with the rebel batteries,
‘The Nantasket arrived off Charleston bar about sun-
rite this morning, having been preceded by the iron-
clad fleot. Ata quarter past seven o'clock n elfghal
gun was fired, and the fleet began manwurring to
get ineido of the bar. The sky was hazy, but with a
glood glaes wo could cee Fort Sumpter, which was
about five miles off. Tt was not until atternooa that
the monitors got fairly under was, when they mdved
in the following order: i
Weehawken. -.-+.0+
Pnsoaic.
Montauk.
Patapsco.
Troneide
Keokuk
Nahant

apt. John Rodgers,
Capt. Percival Drayton.
Commander Worden,
Commander David Ammch,
Oapt. Thomns Turner.
ses.-Gommandet A, C,Rhind,
Commander John Downes.
Nantucket... Coramander Donald Fairfax.
Ontekill Commander Geo. W. Rodgers.

Ido not think the fleet will go Loto action in thie
order, however, the priority of position being allot-
ted to those vessels whoee commanders are first in
rank. An exception will no doubt be made, how-
ever, In the case of the Weehawken, as she ts pro
ded with a “torpedo-rake,"" and will be useful ap a
pioneer.

‘About to o'clock, the first gun was fired by the
rebels from one of their batteries on Morris Ieland.
It was doubtless intended ne a signal. About the
‘same time, the tide becinniox to ebb, the fleet (which
had got within the bar, and Jnin at anchor since nine
o'clock) again got under weigh. Tt had bedh neces
sary to wait until the tide ehould ebb, In order that
the veseele might bo steered and controlled ore hue
ecestully.

Shortly after two o'clock, a small wooden tai

the Danielion, was observed to putoutfrom the flag
abip Ironsides, pass the tron-elad sleet with tho
greateot ease and nonchalance, and proceed to within
‘a mile and ahalf of Fort Sumpter, as near as coult be"
judged. “She was unsrmed, nnd borono flag of truce.
‘Phe shore batteries fired two shota at her, neitheb of
which took ettect. Having entisfied her curiosity,
she turned about and steamed rapidly back to com-
municate with the Ironsides. What way the uature
of her miasion, or of her observations, we could not
ascertain. If a mero reconnolesance hnd been de-
aired, it eccma reasonable to suppose that one of the
fron-cladg, or at lexet an armed oraft, would nye
been despatched upon the errand, At any rate, her
unblushing sndncity in venturing in the facq of
heavy batteries that evca the fron-clads appronehud
cautiously, was a sight to behold and to'en,jc
‘Ten minutes passed, and a eolitary shot, evidedtly
Trom a heavy gun, was tired from the Morria Telhnd
aide nt the Wechawles, which was slowly moving
up, in imitat{on of the Dandellon, followed by her
condjutors. ‘Thea the whole ficet was in motiomill
the traneports, ordnnace-echdonere, ete., hoistivg
thelr signal Mage, and joining the train. A tiff
bpeeze sprang up from the eouthwest about three
orelock,, nnd the sky, already hazy, was overaprend
with Jeaden clouds. After eome purporeleas &
nouvring, it was evident that no miore cout be as.
complished uatil morning, and about flye o'clockeifien
nine lron-clads anchored within the bar, ©. 1.3

THE FIRST DAY.
_ Ox Boand Tite NANTASKET,
OFF Ouancestos, Tueeday, April
(Speeial Correspondence of The Presa.) /

Yn my last letter I informed,your readere that tho
jron-clad fleet about to arsault the defences of
Charleston, was ycaterday ocoupled wholly in pace
ries of preliminary manmuvres which had resfited
in their getting eafely within the bar, where they
anchored for the night. Let me now proceed to na-
rate, in the disjointed form of a diary, which jack of
time compels me tondopt, the occurrencee of to-day,

‘At ten o'elock this morning We ctreamed out to the
New Tronaides ostensibly for the purpose of deliver-
{og some Ietters to her officers, but really with a do
eign of eccing whatever Was to be seen in the ehiipe
of nows, and taking note of it to print. The mam-+
moth battery (on hazy mornings, at a distance of a
mile, we have ecveral times mistaken her for Fort
Sumpter) Jay within s mile of the Morris Island
shore. She was reaily to go into action, os was the
rest of the flect, as soon as the signal ohould
be given. Her decks were covered With sand-
bage, which were being moistened byt water
played from a hose; her fron-platiog was c
Yered with n thick cont of tAllow ; her
heir grim muzziee at us fPovwnlngly tl
‘open ports, and through theee porte the gunnery)
crews could’be ecen ranged at their quarters. Qo
the bleak, desolate waste of eand that marked tte
coast, we could plainly perceive, without the aldo!
8 epy-glase, hundreds of rebels moving about and
|watching us with 6 curious interest. Just babi
apiece of the main group, a battery, which wan
believed to be the battery above Morris Ialand
beacon, was faintly discernible, It was the first
rebel work we had acen, and appeared to be fully
manned, while, Jn addition to the men wo had first
notloed, another company of rebel troope, moyiog,
with regularity, came marching down townrdd it
This wns one of the three or four const batteries
upon which the tenure of Cummings’ Point depend-
cd; which accounted for tye number of troops posted
to hold it. They did not deign to fire neingle shot
at vs, but, doubtless, the detalles of sll our move-
ments were carefully noted by them, aad transmitted
to Charleston by menne of signale. Having watched
them until we grew blind and the Ironsides not
giving apy Indicatione of an intention to begin the.
fight, for-n little while we proceededsto the méuth
of the North channel, to await the developments of
the day.

10.30:A.M =<A-five-cun battery on Sullivan’sTe}ogil
opens tire briekly, but certainly not in the expect4-
tion of reaching the iron-clads, which are stout of
range. Still, the firing Je continued with muck rt-
gularity for nbout ten minutes, and the shells are
seon burating In mid-air or canting up apouts of wa-
ter, that bubble up here and there in the ehannel Jike
20 many fountaine, Ip a littlo while n rebel guoboat
fa seen moying down the channel between Cum-
minge’ Point and Sumpter, Her progress istharked
with breathless fnterest, and the prospect of an ex-
citing engagement between opposing iron-clado is
eagerly discusced, But in ten minutes comes disap-
pointment, for the rebel crafthar changed her.courec
‘and passed out of view behind the fort. Thoepires
of Charleston and the fiag on Caetle Pincknoy are
now plainly in sight In our preaent position; fot we
have moved up the Sullivan-Ieland channel, and
Breach Inlet ie somewhat over two miles to ourright.
About a mile above Breach Inlet, on Sullivan's
Island, {8 a splendidly-constructed sand-battery,
mounting eoveral 200-pound rifle gune. They have
Just opened on the tron-clad steamer Bibb, which

wad been taking eoundinge In the main channel for
three hours past, Wut fr now anchored a quarter of a
mile ahead of ue, and about two ships’ lengths of
General Hunter's Nagablp, Ben de Ford. (Tne shote
all fall wide of the mark, and the Bibb YWoed not
trouble herself to hoist anchor, aa

1A. ML—Tho iron-clads sre still “nactive,
and blowing off steam. The rebel fam has
again made her appearance, and agaip tired
under the cover of Sumpter’s wall The bat-
tery above Breach Inlet atill fires with some
approsch to regularity; but the gunaers now
seem to be wholly intent upon getting the pro-
per range to enlute the flect when it ehalladvance
suficiently.

1.30 P, M.—The tron-clada have st Inst begun to
move up the main ship channel, and io the following
order, as nearly ae we ean perceive :

Weehnwken,
Passalo,
Palapscoy
Montauk,
Tronsides,
Catekill,
Nantucket,
Nahant,
Keokull,

‘They moye very cautiously and slowly, ao slowly
that we can hardly believe they are in motion. The
Weehawken must certainly be within half a nille of
the narrowest portion of the channol, where it is not
impossible that torpedoes or other obstructions have
been placed. The problem will be solved definitely
before many minutes have passed,

2,20 P, M.—Fort Sumpter fires a volley from her
northeastern barbotte guns, and speedily eho is en-
veloped in # dense volume of smokW that settles
down heavily on theacene like s pall, and threatens
to interfere with our view of operations, although our
Uttlo steamer ie not three miles from the fort, and:
wo can readily percelye the smell of burnt powder.
/ Besides, the atmosphere, which was cldar as crystal
in tho forenoon, has become most annoyingly hazy,
and our observations are anything butaatisfactory.
Nono of the batteries on Morris Island, have yet
broken allence, although the Weehawken and Pas-
sal have passed directly in’ range of them. What
does if mean} is the {universal inquiry. Yo itthe

old rebel system of tactica—apparent Inactivity abd

Ll

lack of vigilance, to be followed by eome startling
coup? That is the only explauation. generally nc
credited. Ten minutes pass—teo minutes of won-
der and atrange anxiety, and frultleas epecula-
tion—and then the eilence fs disturbed by the
heavy booth of Fort Moultrie’e frat gun. Then, be
fore the amoke has fairly rolled away, two other guns
from the sand batterics just below Moultrie add their
welght of metal to the iron storm that rains down
upon the Weehawken. Still, unchecked, the gallant
little battery moves up the channe) with the daunt-
lees alr of conscious impregonbility, and with a
aUlence which cannot be provoked into reply. She
turns neither to the right hand nor to the left, but
proceeds directly onward in hercourse with asteadi+
nese that never wavere in the hottest fire. It is a
grand spectacle, worthy to be perpetuated on im-
periehble canvne, to eee that little veesel, a mero
speck upon the watery, yet frelghted with how many
gallant lves, gliding so calmly through the flery
tempest, and under the muzzleo of the most formi-
dable guns that human ingenuity over devised !

2.22—At last the Weehawken deigns to reply to
the fire of Sumpter, from which ehe appeara to us to
be nbout half «mile distant. She ts, therefore,
rectly under the cross fires of Cummings’ Point avd
Moultrie now, and several shells have just buret
above her. Attached to her prow is the torpedo
raft for blowing up obstructions, which wns in-
vented by Captain Ericsson. Captain Rodgers was
the only commander in the fieet sufficiently un-
prejudiced to be willing to accord it atrial. He did
‘pot attach it to his vessel in the manner designed
by the inventor, but fastened {t on with chains. He
wan unwilling to have the torpedo suapended from
the front of the raft; perhaps apprehending that it
might damage himeclf more than the enemy, aa it
explodes by friction, and an accident might easily
occur in man@uvring in such a narrow channel,
‘The general objection urged ngainst tho employ-
ment of the raft, when the ecveral commanders
were applied to come dase ago to teat it, was the
‘agsumption that it would interfere with the steering
of the vesecl, which, upon experiment made at Port
Royal, was found to be not the cnse. But the ex-
perlment was postponed unneccasarily for twenty-
five days, and after it had taken place, it failed to
silence opposition. It 1s the miefortune of inven-
tive genius that it must fight against a host of pre-
judicee single-hauded.

9,05 P, M.—The contest has fairly begun, and
Sumpter belehes forth tinme and smoke and the
heavicet of shot from her southeastern barbettes.
The Weehawken does not respond for a full five
minutes. Both eho and the Paesaio have contrived
to get within close range of the fort, and for a time
aro hidden from our view in emoke. They ecem to
have got #0 close that the barbette guna of the fort
cannot be sulllciently depreseed to bear upon them,
apd the lower cnecmates have accordingly com-
menced to thunder ‘The Patapsco and Mon-
tauk have now taken a band jn the contest, the roar
ofwhich has become nimost- deafening. The very
heavens ehake with the echoing peals of the artil-
lery, and even the watéra of the hnrbor seem to be
uphenving. And yet there are no grand salient foa-
turea of the ecene before us to invite graphi

criptlon. A naval engagement fg n totally ditfercat
atfalr now-r-days from what it wae in 1812, in the
days of the Constitution and Guertiere.

‘The toole wherewith men manufacture history
have been improved beneath the magle touch of sei-
ence: aud now we ee nothing of “grim-visaged
war but masalye stone fortress, aod eome balf a
dozen black spote, which Wa presume to be the mo-
nitore ; and denee clouds of smoke, There is little
clro for the keenest e56 to see; little else for the
boldest imagination to ground a’ plengure in; little
else for the moat vivid fancy to grasp, or the moat
graphic pencil to record in striking colora. For an
affair destined to atir the heart of the nation fo Sts
depths, and.to survive in the memory of men, a6
Jong As history shall live, It waa astonishingly tame
and proay. ‘If the fron-clads had been mere calcula:
ting machines, and were simply vieing with Forte
Moultrie and Sumpter to work out a problem of
arithmetic, It would have porsessed almost as much
interest, except, of cpurse, in the associations con-
nected with it, and the reeulta anticipated to flow
from it. Fort Beauregard, for instance, would fire
five guns, Ifke a country schoolmaster giving out an,
easy sum to the monitors, that stood ranged in a
row like pupils, Then the Weehawken or the Pas
sac would be eilent for five or ten minutes, healta-
ting to epeak, ns though befogged by the emoke.
Having been sileat long enough to reckon up the
matter cn their fingers, as it were, they would roar
out an answer, aod move forward a little nearer to
the ‘head,’ To an uneentimental observer, it must
have verged elightly on the confines of tedium ; but

it was historical, and consequently {t must have

In eblime. ~ “

3.16 P. M.—Our entire fleet bas not fired more than
twelve shots in reply to the two hundred and filty
or three hundred that have comé from the enemy.
Ah! now there is a proapect of novelty in the pro-
gramme. A rebel iron-clad {a, reported to have just
Appeared in view south of Sumpter. She \s, no
doubt, the aame craft thst sppeared to us thie fore
noon, She is not particularly gratified with the ap-
pearance of our iron-clads, and in a few minutes
gracefully retires behind the acencs, Meanwhile
‘the Weehawken, etl)! in tho advance, has moved up
the channel slowly, but Irresiatibly,ae fate, without
encountering apy of the torpedoea that were sup
posed to cross from Moultrie to'the shoals, “The
other iron-clade follow herat intervals of about a
fourth of a yalle, and, of course, share in the warm
reception which grecta her from nearly two hua-
dred plecee of artillery. And now the Ironelves,
having come within clore range of Sumpter, one of
the southeast barbettes Is trained upon her. The shot
richochete, however, and falla short, ¥

2.20 P, M.—Juat here on Incident of an extremely
ludicrouo character occurred. Our steamer, the
Nastasket, is Iying now in the North Channel, and
Breach Inlet fa over thirce miles to our right. We
are keeping company with the steamer Bibb, aod
Gen. Hunter's flag-ehip, De Ford, having n haweer
tothe latter, We are the only three eraft in the vi-
cinity, all othera having retired to a more reapeetful
diatance from the ecene of operations. Ofeauree, ll
oyes nro turned weatwardly to Sumpter. Suddcoly
a Tribune, correayondent, looking. north, exclaime
“thas for us! We turn ayout, and sure enough
from the battery above the Tulet, a little feather of
snoW-white smoke” is curling upward. A second
passea—a shot ecreama overhead—and then a scene
‘of panté and confusion prevails for a moment on the
promenade deck, to which nothing but the pencil of
tn Hogarth would do justice. Correspondents drop
flat upon thelr faces ns though atricken bys sudden
palsy. Our captsin disappeared upon the instant,
and is not scen forat leastan hourafter. The tall
form of the pilot ls geen to glide down one of the
gangs to the main-deck like an arrow, while @ num-
ber of demented beings are ecrambling down tho Iad-
der, Which upeets {tel just in that critical mo-
ment. It is questionable whether the darkest
daya of the French revolution could equal the
horror of thie moment. Somebody haa cast
off the Ben De Ford's haweer; we are steam-
ing awny fo a safer epot at the rate of
thirteen koote an hour, and then # roar of Inughter
announces that every on {s willing to regard the
ino{ddat ke 8 joke. In the twinkling of an eye, too,
the De Ford hauls up anchor and follows, ‘The shot
which was intended for ua must have miscarried,
for it had struck her rigging, cutling it, grazed her
‘port bow, and plumped into the water. Considering
our distance from the battery (at least three miles),
the shot was excellently aimed. The second and
Inet shot they fired, during the day, struck the water
just in the spot wo had vacated, Some of the De
Ford folks tried, in a most unchriatian spirit, to
create a laugh against us, but a witty correapondent
turned it off with the remark that we hsd “stlenced
‘the first battery, anyhow !""

4.25.—Tho Ironsides pours s brondside of soven
guna against the northeast face of Sumpter, Shortly
after this she got aground, owing to the great diiti-
culty experienced In steering her, but managed
fortunately to get afloat again, The Patapsco haa
just managed to get within a few hundred yarda of
the northeast face of Sumpter, and is ‘blazing
away” with comparative impunity, The barbettes
cannot reach her, and the fire of Fort Moultrie does
as much damage to Sumpter as it does to the little
wasp. She will not be casily dislodged.

3.45.—An far a6 we can see through the curtsia of
smoke the entire flectisnow io action, firing very
slowly, however, in comparison with-the esetoy,
whose guns make one continuous roar, varied with
fa sharp, cracking report occasionally, as though
their armamentembraced some uousually formidable
rifled guns, The fire from Sumpter is not as heavy.
‘agit was half an hour ago. Her first shot at the
Keokuk entered the aft turret of that vessel, and if
yery soon became evident that ahe could: not with-
stand the hot fire to which sbe was subjected, ber
great ourface rendering her more coneptcuous mark
than werethe monitors. Several of the latter, there
ge intérpose themeélvea to shield ber, and thus

raw. the fire of Sumpter themselves.

4.10 Pi. M.—Tho Ironsides, for come inexplicable
cause, im coming down the channel ogain. \It Is

*) crow wal

feared that ahe hae béen disabled; and yet there\are

no aigns of fofury visible, and from the freedom of

her motion it is clear that her mach{oery Is all right.

Tho firo of Sumpterhas slackened very considerably,
and the principal portion of the work has devolved

upon Moultrie, Battery Beauregard, and Battery
Bee. The Keokuk lies probably three hundred
yards from Sumpter, and has tired two of her guns.
‘A tremendous fire is concentrated opon her, The
Tronsides seems to have ceased work for the day.

5 P. M.—The monitors do not reapond to any fire |
but that from Fort Sumpter, and are making the
most of what little daylight remains, by trying to
‘The Ironsides {s again

batter In the northeast wall.
aground, and is being partially abielded, as the Keo-
Kuk was, bs'the interposition of a portion of the
Beet, which previously, for an hour or more, had
been hammering at the southeastern angle of Sump-
ter, and, unless our glagecs greatly deceive us, bad

effected a breach near the parapet, There ix a mage~

zine in this corner, ao that thelr purpose was very
plain,

5.20 P. M.—The firing hss ceased for to-day, and
the fleet 1s coming down In the track of the Irou-
sides. The Weehawken is loth to leave, and lingers
behind until suneet, The Trousides fires a parting
salute to Cummings! Point, but the rebele make 20
response.

The Keokuk has come out of the struggle in a
most dilapidated condition, having outtercd woree
than any other veeecl fo the fleet. She was atruck
threo hundred times, her armor was plerced com:
pletely through in four or five places, aud in her
bow there lea hole big enough to thrust a man's
head In; and to make the matter ag bad ns possible,
it is but'a few inchea nbove the water line, Nine of
her crew,’ including Commander Rhind, were
wounded. The wounds were all caused by frag-
ments of flying bolts, and none of them, except in
the case of Enelgn MoIntoeh, who was struck in the
head, will reault fatally. The Keokuk cannot go
{nto action to-morrow. Solld shot arc imbedded in
every part of her armor, lke so many plume in a
pudding.

You recollect the negro, Robert Small, who ran
off from Charleston, rome montha.ngo, with a rebel
rcbooner and crew, and took them to New York,
where he became quite a lion for atime. When his
fame had lulled a bit, he came down to Hilton Head,
and started an oyster entoon, Well, Robert fe pllot
of the Keokuk now, and one better acquainted with
the vagaries of Charleston harbor would be hard to
tind. Of course, he was in the pilot house to-day,
and of couree he cajoyed an execllent opportunity
of viewing the fight, He declares poaltively that they
ran to within 120yards ofthe fort. If he had bls way
the Keokuk would have been run right up to the
wharf.
claimed: “Weill tight "em muzzle to muzzle, d—a
‘ets !" Commander Rhind, though quite as earneat
of purpore, liad more celf-controly however, and
halting at a distance of about four hundred yards
from Fort Sumpter, he flung his veaecl round, in-
tendiog that the; front turret should attend to that
stronghold, and the aft turret fo Moultrie; but as
I have enid, the very firat shot recetved from the
frat-mentioned fort knocked the a(t turret, meta-
phorleally apeaking, Into d cealed the
Jo of ita gun with allence. It was not many ml-
nutes after, that another shot entered the pilot-
houze where Robert waa taking bis observations.
OF course It startled him s little, aa it would have
startled the braveat inn on enrth, but hia coolne

wer once dederted him, aod his temper was equn-
Uized almost AY the same moment’ by noticing A
“eartload of brloks,” a8 he .expreescd it, ying
from the northeast walls. That fact helped much to
calm down the aggravating clreumnatance, that du.

ring the entire action the veesel waa oaly able to |

ire four shots.

I vivited the unfortunate craft thia afternoon just
after she camo out of tho engagement, Captain
Rhind had been struck above the right ankle with a
fragment of bolt, but the wound, although painful,
was not ofarerious charscter, and he was giving
directions to hia officers with his usual courteous
demeanor. Ho Informed us that the rebel fire per-
fectly rained upon thelr srmor. It was one con-
tinuoue clatter, and about as deafening as the din
produced in a botler-shop when elght or ten hundred
mea are hammering away simultaneouely. The
‘impleat ordere had to be shouted in stentorian tones,
to that eome of the oificera became hoarse, and
sll aggravated. The bolte tlew in all directions (ns
they didn the orginal Monitor when ahe fought
the Merrimac), and conacquently the fron-plating
became strained or loosened, and the vessel began
to leak before night had set in. ~

From the Keokuk we proceeded to visit the iron-
cind'stenmer Nahant. Upon inquiry It was recer-
tained that she had been less unfortunate, but that
she had pevertheleys sustained damage. Onejof her
killed, and three Were. wounded. ! Com-
wander Downes received a slight wound inthe foot,
but, like the commander of the Keokult,be was " tr-
repressible.”” Hie yeasel had done good service, until
she was in a measure disabled, having fired twenty-
s(x shote, all of whicb told upon the walle of Sump-
ter. Towards the close of the fight her turret from
some cause or other refused to revolve. The mic
chief was easily repaired in a couple of houra to
night, and at this writing ehe is perfectly able to
join in the engagement to-morrow should it be re
newed.

The Montauk Gred twenty-eight shote, excecding
In this respect every other monitor. Although ex-
posed for two hours to the concentrated fire of the
heaviest artillery, including, it 18 believed, eeveral
of the Blakefy guns, neither her deck nor turret
was anywhere plerced or chattered. She bears an
Infinite pumber of honorable indentations, and may
not be quite ae eymmetrical aa eho was yesterday ;
but in the matter of elfectivences she ranks as high
ag ever, and her officers nod crew bave confidence
that she is favulnerable against any ordnance that
can be brought to bear upon her by the enems—A
feeling -not impnfred In the least by the singular
circumstance that but one of her erew was killed,
belug Ftruck bya piece of bolt. His oxme 1 baye
not yet learned.

The Catekill was not severely damaged, althongh
struck thirty-two tines, No casualtica occurred oo
board of her; nor was there anything novel or ex-

ing In her experience. She simply did the work
assigned her inp plain business way, And came out
of the conflict ao/neat in appearance, and ae sound
In all her vital parte, ag when ehe entered It. Her
commnnder, George Rodgers, received the signal to
retire with anythiog but eatisfaction, and ie only
anxious that operations may be resumed “the first
thing In the morning.

‘The Ironaldes received one ehot in her starboard
dow, which was stopped by her barricades of sand
baga placed on deck, One of her ports wae carried
away completely. ‘The number two port on her
starboard side was atruck; one of the bolte was
started, and another carried away. Of her other
misfortunes—of her getting twice aground, I have
already informed you. The difficulty Iay partly in
her stecling gear, and partly in the narrow slze of
the chdine, occupied xe itwas by the other eight
Jronclads, I regret to have to say that she fired but
eight guns in the engagement ; one broadside ofeeven
gun into Sumpter, and one gun at Cummings’ Polat.
She at one t
Sumpter, but her armor proved asuflicient protection
toherat that range, although, from her enormous ex-
tent of surface, he at once became a target for the
rebelgunnere. At the council of war held on board
her last night, Admiral Dupont reaofred to go In in
advance of tho othor (ron-clade, and to attack the
northwest face of the fort, provided {t was found
practicable to get high enough up the channel, the
walls being weaker on the eldea nearcat Charleston,
As we already too well know. Another advantage
expected. to be gained by this plan ay {n the fact
that it would render Cumminga’ Point and Fort
Wagoner’ impotent for harm, while the enemy
could not concentrate ns heavy a fre upon us above
ae below the fort, But it waa found that if the Iron-
sides ehould lead the van the other vessels would
be #0 cramped for room that they could aot be ope-
rated to as much advantage, while the impossibility

of forcing a channel through the first Une of ob
struction, and thus getting above ‘the fort, waa

of the
Had one
of the monster torpedoes containing 600 pounds of
powder been attached to her raft and exploded
against theac obstructions, it 1s posalble that a chan
nel might have been cleared, It le even claimed
that torpedoea of the same description can clear a
channel tifty feet wide. But the experiment was not

afterwards demonstrated by the All-succe
Weehawken, which attempted the task.

tried, and the fleet could not ascead the harbor,
Accordingly, they,dld the next beat thing, and con

eentrated their principal fire against the northeast
face, but with what success {a not yet definitely
| knows.

The Nantucket did not get off scot-free, Her tif
teen-inch gun was dieabled, and her turret dént

serious injuries:
for the morning, that he may avenge these {ndignt

ties." He declarea vehemently that be can reduce

Fort Sumpter to brick dust in three hours ; and

may say that, making due allowance for metaphor

cal Heense, there are many officers in the fleet who
do not regard the pulyerization of the grim fortress

Ip fact, he was very much oxelted, nod ox- |

ne approached to within 1,200 yards of

ted Lo
at leasta dozen places, but abe sustained no more
Commander Fairfax {8 impatient

impouslble, There were no casualties on the Nane
tucket.

The Weehawken deported hertelf in the coolest,
most energetic, md methodteal of styles, Leading
the ficet, she moved as far up tho channel av it wae
possible to go, and was withia twenty rods of the
obstructions that stretch from Sumpter to Moultrie.
Hor officers state that they could seo them arranged
in three Hace. The first linea were not permanently
fixed, but floating to some exteat. Hack of this
there appeared to be a row of beer barrels, in con~
nection with heavy chain cables. What other ob-
structions wore to be encountered could not be seen.
‘There were no casualties on board the Weebawken.
She fired twenty-six gung the majority of whiet
struck the northeast wall of the fort.

The Patapsco met with little adventure that de
serves to be recorded among the narrow escaper.
‘While cruimng around—in the endeavorPI presume,
fo slip through the obatructions—she became en-
tangled in the meshea of asubmarive cable, The
solicitude of Commander Ammen at this untoward
occurrence may eauily be conjectured. Neverthe
Jeas, he cooly Insued the requisite orders to the en
glncers ; they reverscd the engines, and, after Often
minutes of tugging, the vessel mannged to extricate:
herself from her unpleasant dilemma. The rebelo
had at once perceived the situation she Was in, and
did thelr beat to penetrate or sink her, in both of
which views they were thwarted. Not a life wap
lost nora wound received on the Patapsco during
the day. :

OASUALTIES ON THE KEOKUK.

Captaia Rhind, alight contusion sbove right
ankle.

Alexander McIntosh, acting ensign, eeverad
wounds in face and forehend, and akull fractured =
cannot ourvive, \

Oharlcs McLaughlin, seaman, wounded in right
knee.

W. MeDonsld, seaman, wounded slightly is’ left
koce and wriat,

David Chaplin, seaman, contuelon ln left aide.

James Ryan, seaman, wounded In right thigh >
not dangerously. >

Charles B. Mott, landaman,
arm.

Henry Snolla, seaman, wounded in sealp; not
eerlously.

John Brown, seaman, wounded fn left temple,
slightly.

Richard Nicholson, quartermaster, slight wound
4n lelt shoulder. ¥

CASUALTIES ON THE NAHANT.
Commander John Downes, wounded slightly Le
foot. ‘

Edw. Cobb, quartermaster, skull fractared, dan-
| eorously.

Isaac Sotleld, pilot, wounded In neck andahoulder,.
alight
J. Mealilster, eeamnny wounded In head by
plece of bolt

Ono or two others received alight wounds.

‘The rebels principally tired the Eoglieh steel cont
cal ehot. . Their most effective hattertes were Forte
Moultrie and Beauregard, the latter beings small
rthwork beyond Moultrie, From these almést &
tinuous tire was kept up. The fire from Sumpr
ter, on the contrary, waa intermittent, sometimes
censing for three or four mimutes together. Gur

light wound in left

ole engagement, as will bo ecen by the
pproxigste statement :

Vesrel No. of Shota,
Tronsises... : 8
Passaic
Weehawken.
Patapsco ...
Montauk
Nautacket
Catskill.
Keokuk
Nahant.

15
The above is made up partly from actual count, and.
partly [rom the statements of commanders, €o- that
Inm unable to vouch for its entire accuracy. The
total, however, cannot be far wide of the mark. No
return was recelyed of the number of guns fired by
the Nantucket.

‘To-night ‘nother council of war will be held on
thn Iropalice, What the aature of the deliberations
\will be ls of course only known to those who have
been summoged to be present. If the question be,
‘ae I surmise it is, whether the contest shall be re
newed to-morrow, I feel confident it will be settled
affirmatively ; for, with the exception of the Keo-
kuk, the damages infifcted upon the tron-clads, al-
though disabling eeveral of them for the time, are
slight, and euch as can be speedily rectifled. ALL
that they accomplished to~lay wasn most daring re-
connolseance ; nor, In view of the fact that opera~
tlone were not commence! until three o'clock, do I
thik that anything more was intendg to be accom=
plished. The real work, the hardest portion of the
Aghting, get les before us

THE SECOND DAY.
Wenxespay Evestna, April S.

The council held fast night was prolonged far into
this niorniag, not breaking up until 1 o'clock. “The
determination arrived at, after mature consultation,
was that the engagement ehould be continued to day;
butit has not been, Notsgun has been fired by
either belligerent. The roughness of the water and
hich wind ave put a check to operations to-day.
‘The fleet ex at anchor {a the Inelde channel, the
vesecld maintaining the same relative positions ag
when they ceased firing yesterday. They do not lie
wholly out of range of the land batteries, but the
rebel nre not diepoged to be troublesome while they
axe It alone.”

Yet there Is one plece of Important news, which, I
regret to say, must be recorded here. The ICéokule
sunle at twenty miqutes paat 5 o'clock this morning.
She now liea in the main ship-chanuel, off Morris
Ieland, just above Lighthouse iolet, All-herofficere.
‘and crew were, fortunstely, eaved, and were taken
off in the nnvy,tug. Ae I informed you yesterday,
ne leaked bully When she came out of the action,
ut her pumps were eet to work, and {t wae thought
The large hole Jn her bow, haw-
ever, iInished her career for her. At low tide her
turret, smoke-stack, and flagatai’ can be seen. She
can no doubt be ralscd: but whether she can be
Je scrviccable in her former expgelty te, 1a my
opinion, questionable, At any rate, It seems Im)ro-
bable that ahe can be refitted up intime to astlat the
leet In the atruggle just Inaugurated. 7

This morning both cannonading and musketry
were henrd io the direction of Folly elnnd. It ie
belleved that several regimenta of our troops have
deen Junded on the falaad, and that the rebels on
the eouthern extremity of Morris Island have beea
provoked thereby Into making somo demonstration
against them. Concerning our atmy movemente,
however, {t {s beat that T abould be silent or the
preseat. General Hunter's combinations have not
yet been entirely perfected ; but, with favorable
weather, little delay can occur from this causo.

‘This afternoon the rebels were scen to be busily
engaged throwing up earthworks on the lower end
of Morris. Island. Hundreds of them could be ecen
at work with plek and spndo and whéelbarrows,
and some heavy cuns have already been mounted.
‘They ecem determined that we shall not find them
napping.

THE THIRD DAY. F
Tourspay Evesina, April 9,

Nothing hae teen done by elther jrty to-day,
Jooking to sn-tmmeJinte renewal of hostilitica,
With the exception of the Patapsco, (which has
gohe to Hilton Head, a0 It-ts reported, to euard
against a raid of one of the Savannah rame,) and the
Keokuk, the {ron-clads have remained at anchor in
the main channel, extending over alengthof about
two miles. Although within rangeof Fort Wagoner,
Battery Bee, Battery Beauregard, Fort Moultrie,
| and, apparently, not out of range of Sumpter, they

have not been molested. Whatever may be, the
reaton, the enemy do not seem at all disposed to pro-
cipitate affairs. Perbaps they are now engaged in
repairing, a8 {ar 88 possible, the Injuries they have
rece|ved ; for we know, to a certainty, that they auf-
fered somewhat, although to what extent, we must
depend mainly upon the statements of the Charlegton
papers to ascertain.

It ts known that one of Sumpter’s barbettes wae
dismounted by a shot from the Nahant. One of her
oflicers states that on the northeast face of the fort,
which received our severest fire, three of the port
holes, viewed through a glass, appeared to be
Knocked nearly into one. A portion of the brick.
work had evidently been battered away, for the ma--
, | conry was of a different color. As I reported in
- | Tuesday's letter, n breach appeared to have been
made in the southeastern angle of thefort, up near
the parapet. Then Robert Small’s statement that
he ‘saw acart-lond of bricks fying,” Is reiterated
(| by numerous observers, and Ls entitled to some ere

dence. About halfpsst three o'clock on Tuceday
afternoon, when the rebels were firing at the rate of
33 guns perminute, Adense cloud of emoke sudden-
|- | ly rose from Cummings Point, and was instantly

followed by a tremendous report, It ia belleved by
1 | some that one of the enomy’s magazines must have
exploded, Tho volume of emoke was so beavy that
it was ecen o distance of ten miles, and for sught I
know, even further, With this exception, I think

she could be saved.

FORNEY’S WAR PRESS.—PHILADELPHIA, SATURDAY, APRIL. 25,1863.

At will be found that none of the rebel works but
Fort Sumpter wero materially harmed, for the leet
did not respond to their fire.

It is incomprehensible to mauy that the Keokuk,
‘With 4 greater thickaces of armor than tho Ironsides,

maraartha—porhaps an tgnominions ball and chato ;
perhaps a severe Jecture on the enormity of ble
guilt, In explanation of General Seymour's sum-
mary method of crushing the "lever of civillzation!*
under his heel, ft may be remarked that be {s 8 gra-

constructed upon the turret principle, and present: | duate of West Point, and that the graduates of that

ing far lees surface to a fire than the flag-nhlp, should

varnishing establishment, like the idol of Edmund

‘havo fared so much worse, The Keokuk waa pene- | Sparkler's beart, have "no biggod nonsense!" about

trated through her armor in four or five plac

anil | them.
in some cases by rountlwhot, The Ironaides was not

There is no organization doing a more extended

penetrated through her armor at all; and beyond | work of philanthropy among tho rolilera of thia
the fact that one of her ports was carried way, | department than the Ohristian Commission, The

nd a round ehot was fount rolling mbout her deck

New York Branch has now three representatives,

When the fight was over, thero was little In her ex- | Rev. Mr, Kimball, late of San Francisco ; Rey. Mr.
ternal appearance to indleate that she had been ex- | Williame, and Rey. Mr. Emmene, actively at work
poseil for two hours toa terrific bombardment. To | here distributing books and tracts, and preaching the
sehat was this marked ditference of result attributable | Word of God on all opportusie ocuasions. Hitherto
Partly, I think, to tho fact that the Ironsidea' | there has been a great lack of religions reading in
plating was backed by wood, and was thus, in somo | this department, and many of the regiments, too,
degree, ylelling ; partly to the fact thatehe did not | ate without chaplains. Nevertheless, considerable
approach closer to Sumpter than 1,200 yards, while | religious Interest 1s manifesting iteelf, and In some

the Keokuk ran up to within 490 yards; but mainly | regiments a season of revival ia in progres

‘The

to the fact that the rebels adopted the shrewd policy | 97th Pennsylvania Regiment, Colonel Guas, from
of concentrating a tremendous fire on the Keokuk, | West Ohester and vicinity, and the 116th New York,
with the design, which was accomplished, of placing | have been particularly noted for thelr zeal in the
er hors de combat, Itseeme to be thelr purpose to | cause, The change which bas taken place within a
destroy our fleet in detail, if possible, On the other | few months, in the characte and conduct of themen,
faand, we Isbor under the dieadvantage that we can- | is as wholesome as It is remarkable, The Inbors of
aot fo well ndopt the exme plan of attnck agalnst | the Commission are worthy of all praise, and, what
any one of their forts, aingly, for our iron-clads, in | is better than praise, substantial encouragement.

whatever position they may sesume, are at all times

About three o'clock this afternoon tho report of

subject to n cronstire (rom heavy rifled guns, throw- | beavy gun was heard in the direction of Folly Im

ing eteel-pointed shot,

land, followed apparently by the explosion of shell.

Ofcourse, these difficulties were seen in the be- | Shortly after dente volumes of smoke began to rise
ginning. They have not surprised un in the least; | apparently from the lower end of the faland, and at
and yet they eeem to have assumed all the force of | elx o'clock this evening quite an extensive conta

~ povelty sluce Tuesday. I do not mean thatwe have

gration waa raging, presenting a very beautiful apeo-

‘become disheartened. I believe that Admiral Du- | tacle. At.the same hour another fire was observed

pont

4 General Hunter are just as sanguine of | in the direction of Bird Inland. What they indicate

ucecss to-day as they have ever been. Hut 1 be- | Ihave not set learned. They wero possibly mere

eve further, that they do not expect to reduce this | fires In the woods, originating by accident

r they

stronghold by two or three days! bombardmént. It| may have been lighted na signals, There la very
may require two or threo weeke of the very hanlest | little ele In the abape of news that can be commu-
dghting. Indeed, General Hunter, yesterday, re | nlested at preeent. To-morrow there msy be more
caarked: “It may take us a, month to capture | interesting matter for a letter, au « movement {a on
Charleston." So, {tin possible that there may be | foot for to-night, which promises somo work. Itis
postponement and unaccountable delay—unac- | understood that the several regimenta of troops
countable, at least, to the grent body of the North- | Ianded recently on Folly Tala will embark en
‘ern people, who cannot fully appreciate the magnl- | transports, and proseed up Folly river for the pur-
tude of the task, as compared with the menus of ac- | pore of surprising a rebel battery, forming one of

complishment. ‘They may
count up the strength of the Innd apd naval forces
gathered hore, but still they cannot reduce to figures
the chances of success or failure, ‘The most trivial

tudy their maps, and | the southern defences of Morris Island.

‘An Ielose there are rumors afloat that Admiral
Dupont and General Hunter have eent North for
ald, and that nothing will be done until additional

circumstance may upset ol our calculations—a sin- | troops and iron-clada arrive. Improbable.
le storm may scatter this tleet to the thirty-two —

points of the compaee, and render futile the prepars-
tlonaof a year. But while there may be anxiety
‘and impatience, and restlessnces to gather in the

THE FIFTH DAY.
Saturpay Evenino, April 11th,
‘How can I tell you the startling and painful nowe,

fruite of victory, there csnnot finally be such A | the truth of which wae made manifest to us today]

thing as‘fallure. I believe that success Lies within | ‘The combined land and oavalasi

range of our monitors’ guna; but if we ean take

Charleston with the loss of two, or even threo

monitors, we shall have csuse for,congratulation.
Tt fe nstonishing how closely Yankee enterprise

ult upon Charles-
ton hasnot achieved success, and has, for the pre-
sent, been abandoned. It would be uselens to at
tempt tb deny, or toglota over the unwelcome truth -
it must be told. Ioxn well understand the feelings

{ollowa in the track of war. AtStono Inlet, six or | of mortifestion and astonishment its publication
seven miles from here, there arehalf a dozen sutler’a | must occasion the Northera people. For the Last

schooners, the sanguine proprictors of which

six months and more, they haye heard cootinually

chartered them, frejghted them with euch goods as | of the immense preparations belng made for the at-

were likely to command a ress sale in the “nest

tack on Charleston, They have been led tosuppose,

‘of treason,” when it should be taken, and followed | from random newapsper stntoments and from eol-
in the wake of the iron-clada, These men never for | dicre’ letters, that General Hunter's army was be
‘8 momentcontemplated the possibility of weeks of | tween fifty and seventy thousand atrong. And

delay ; they imagined that the most exciting portion
-of the enterprize would be the trip from Port Royal

very many of them have imagined that an ox-
tensive fiect of irooclads—esy several *hundred—

\ up. Consequently, eome of them bave been de | had been gathered here to co-operate with the lani
preeeed In epirits. They will write home dismal let- | forcea. In all these imaginings they have strayed
tera, predicting national ruln and forelsa Interven | from the facts. By the fight on Tueaday the umber

tion; and theletters will be published in Copper

of our iron-clais fit for immediate work bne vit-

head journals 6880 many arguments In favor of a | tually been reduced to five or slx,. True, they are

dishonorable peace. Meanwhile, those of the aut-
fers who rashly epeculsted In provision will fad
their cargoea spolling for s market, It is in such

invulnerable in 8 senee, and incapable of being
greatly harmed; but it would scem, also, that they
are incapable of greatly harming the coemy in hia

Waysasthis that accounta of diessters to our sms | present stronghold. Armed with more powertul.

came to bedisseminsted in the North, and implicitly
belleved in by the credulous.

‘The wounded of the Keokuk and Nahant have
been removed to the hospital-boat Cosmopolitan.
The schooner Recruit, belonging to the Sanitary
Commission, was towed up, on Tuesday afternoon, by
the hospital boat toa position where she might be
of service if required. Four representatives of the
Commission jwere ongtoard: Dr. Pags, Dr. Morris,
W. B. Roberta, Esq., and Dir, Spaulding. Their

_.vaervices thus far have not been in request.

+ Aneffort will be made Immediately, perhaps to-
morrow, if the weather favors, to raise the Keokuk.
If she ean be raised, and I do not eee that there will
be much difficulty about it, she may yet be of con-
aiderable service aa a ram, if not a8. a guoboat. Her
mschinery la in good working order, and her armor
plating on the larboard alde is not plereed anywhere.
‘On the starboard side it will require to be wholly
renewed. The shot-holes in her smoke atack do not
amount to anything. Itins most remarkable fact
that, slthough so many of ber men were atruck by
the flying pieces of bolt, not one of them was killed;
and ite still more remarkable that but three lives
were lost in the whole “leet. How forcible an illus-
tration of the perfection to which the art of war has
attained! The most formidable means of attack;
‘the most invulnerable and ecientitically constructed
defences; a terrible collision of over two hours; tre
mendous roars of artillery that shnke the heavens;
tremendous cloude of smoke that yell the fun, aad
‘only two or three fatal casualties! How much more
<deadly has been many a firemen’s fight’ in Philadel-
phia! Truly Mars is being shorn of hie glory, and
the ruddy light of bia star begins to pale.

THE FOURTH DAY.
Fripay Eventna, April 10.

Still the roughest of sens, and no prospectof active
operations for a little while, It was Intended to ak
tempt the raising of the Keokuk this afternoon, at
low tide, but, of course, postponement 16 necessary.
‘The atenmer Dirigo, upon which the task devolves,
arrived here this forenoon, She is provided with s
derrick, from which 4 massive chain-cable depends,
and thie fs in-some manner to be attached to the
aunken veesel. Tudging from her stolid appearance,
her Ufting power must be immenee, and no doubt ie
entertatned that ahe will ucceed In her undertakiog.
So, although fitted (or sn entirely different purpose
(which cannot now be dfaclosed, but will be when
the fight fe renewed), ahe will be urefully employed
4n the parenthesis of quiet which It seems we are
now promised.

None of the officers of the Keokuk, alogular as it
may sound, saved any of thelr valuables, yet the
vessel was lesking #0 badly at two o'clock on
‘Wedaesday morning, that every one on board knew
she must go down, They certainly should have had
‘ample time, between two o'clock and twenty minutes
past elght, to pack up thelr “portable property."
However, they have abundant cause of thankful-
nea that they excaped so well.

The rebela seem to be Impreseed with the notion
‘that it fe part of General Hunter's plan of ope
Tations to land a force of troops either on Folly

© Island or on Morris Island, and thua take the Cum-
‘minge’ Point Battery, Fort Wagoner, and the other
‘works beating on the mata channel, in the flank apd
rear At any rate, as waa reported several daye
ago, they haye made extensive preparations to
hinder such a movement, should It be attempted.
Nevertheless, i{ any portion of General Hunter's
army is ordered to take Morris Irland, I feel certain
‘that the order will be executed ; and Jt seems to me
‘that the Ironeides, with her long-range guns, could
pour sucha raking fire into the triple line of én-
trenchmente, commanding the southern approach,
a8 would apcedily render them too hot for rebel oc-
cupation,

I know not while I write thie letter whether 1
shall be allowed td send it to you; for the news
correspondents have come to a mild type of grief.
Hitherto they have had no cause to complain of thelr
treatment in this department, Geo. Hunter hos al-
waya treated them courteously, and extended to
them such facilities for news-gathering ne properly
lay within bie power, His chief of Ataf, General
Seymour, hs, however, for reasons only known
to himself, chosen to adopt the contrary policy. On
Wednesday he informed the correapondente that
they would not be allowed to send North any ac

wunt of the fight, ‘Thereupon, one of their number

‘ited upon Gen. Hunter, explained to him that
private letter had already been sent to Hilton Head
to be mniled North, and that the Northern people
would be filled with anxiety and gloom by the exag-
gerated reporte of-the retirement and diecomfture of
our feet. The general admitted the correctness of
this view, and nt length coneented that the mail
mhould be sent, that the Northern public might
know the true state of ffnirs, _

‘Accordingly, the Nantasket proceeded to Hilton
Head, with letters for The Press, Herald, Times, Tri-
bung, and Bosicn Journal, and, baving mailed them,
returned to Charleston, Yesterday, General Soy
mour, having heard of the strategic movement, ho-
nored the Nantaaket with a visit, and informed the
gentlemen in charge that General Hunter had re-
yoked his consent, and that the Arago, which leaves
to-morrow, would fnot carry a mall. It wos
LUkewlse intimated, In a general way, that any
correspondent surreptitiously sending home s par-

Holoof news would subject himeelf to some anathema

guns, they might tell a different story; but, with
their present armament, to attempt to batter down
the fortldcntions that Ine both eides of the harbor,
would be to attempt s hopeless task. It would not
be prudent to mention how many effective ttoopa
theréare at Geaeral Hunter's dieposal; it must
culfice to state that the number {s less, far leas, than
the Northern papers have reoresented. The rebels
have sesembled here an army of at least forty thou-
sacd men, all under cover of eutrenchments. It
would be folly-to attack such An army in our pre
sent condition; Notting can &} done towards taking
Charleston until adequatd reinforcements arrive.
Let them be forwarded, and the elty can be taken,

The “surprise party,” which had been projected
for Isst night, was of course abandoned. All the
troopa are to return immediately to Hilton Head,
nd severalof the transports are already under way.
The monitor-fleet, with the exception of the Mon-
tau and Paseale, will now proceed to New Orleans,
and thence, I learn, up the Mississippi, to the vi-
elnity of Vicksburg. The Ericason, which brought
a large cargo of torpedos for Capt, Ericeson’s newly:
invented raft, or ‘“‘devil-fish,” will go to Fortress
Monroe to-morrow and discharge It. The raft not
having been fairly teated, of course there was no
une for the torpedoes,

Yeaterday a body of rebels crossed over to Folly
Island from the main Iand, captured thirty of our
troops, and moved off before they could be inter-
cepted. The particulora of the discreditsble affair
have not transpired out in the channel here.

-In reflecting upon the many novel features of
Tuesday's engagement, one cannot but be etruck
with the sppsrently remarkable difference in the
felative strength of the forces opposed. We brought,
into the action but thirty-four guns—the Ironsides
mounting eighteen guns, and the other iron-clade
each two guns, The enemy bad concentrated upon
us about one bundred guns; sod some caval officers
estimate the number as high as one hundred and
afty.

Our monitors can only fire a shot once In ten
minutes, and It seemed as though they fired even leat
frequently. The rebels Ored incessantly, aod must.
have expeaded between twenty-five hundred and
three thousand ehot and shell, The Blakely guns,
which they had mounted on Moultrie and Battery
Beauregard, are, perhaps, the most formidable
Weapons known, and weapons whlch our naval offl-
cere never dreamed they would be compelled to en-
counter. Our ordnance and ammunition were of
the usual faeblon, and lees effective than the ene
my’s. And jet, notwithstanding this dispsrity of
armament, but one of our iron-clsde—an experiment
—awas uctublly pierced through her armor, and even
she can, It is now believed, be restored to some de-
grce of usefulness, Neither the Ircnsides nor any of
the monitors swere penetrated through their iron ploting
by the revel fire, This a very important fact which
should not be lost sight of; for upon this single fact
We can ground a reasonable hope of succcas hereafter,
for, reat assured, (he assault upon Charleston will be
commenced all in good time. Ido not eny re-com-
menced, because, io my estimation, the grand at-
tack ja yet to come off. It 1s not conceivable, that
after weary months of preparation, and of drilling,
and of gathering up suppliea, no enterprise of 80
much magnitude, and upon which 80 many national
intercats necessarily attend, would have been aban~
doved after ttco hours’ fighting, It 1s not conceivable
that Admiral Dupont could be scared away from a
fenelble project by s little ill-success In the begin-
ing, espectally when the likellhood of it was fore-
seen, as it was in this Instance. It ts not conceiya-
ble that he would not be jeslous of the reputation
for skill, daring, and experience, which he has bullt
up for himself by yeare of faithful public service.
Nor is it concetvable, supporting we had een the
end of the Charleston campaign, that it would have
been permitted to close Ingloriously with the sink-
Ing of one veeael and some dozen casualties to human
life, If the programme was felt to be eo near a close,
there would have beco, at Jenst, another day’s hard
fighting, for appenrance enke; the orchestra, after
40 much preliminary tuning up snd twisting of keya,
would not have separated without one glorious
overture.

And this just precisely brings mo to the infereace
T drew at the close of Tuespsy’s letter, but which T
then penned In Ignorance of its clairvoyant cha-
racter, We have done nothing yet but make an ex-
tenalve reconnolesance. It wna necessary to know
whether any torpedoes had been planted in the bar-
bor opposite Forts Wagoner and Beauregard, Our in-
formation on this point 1s now full and satisfactory.
It was neccesary to ascertain the number of guns the
enemy could concentrate upon any one veasel, This
point has becn settled, It was necessary to know.
the exact number and location of their batteries.
‘This we have determined. It was necesary to know
the calibre and range of their guna, which has beca.
pretty conclusively determined, , It was necessary
to know what species of artillery, and what
kind of projectiles they could bring to bear upon us,
On both of theao fioints we have acquired valuable
knowledge, It was necessary to know, whether or
not there were obstructions extending across the
channel from Sumpter to Moultrio ; nnd if s0, what
was their character. This Information we now poa-
sess, It was necessary to koow whether or not
Fort Sumpter was ironclad as had been reported,
and that queation has been settled. In short, a hun-
dred points that were formerly subjects of discussion,

pro’and con, are transferred to the domafn of fast | and ornamental trees for firewood, nnd, in many

by the reconnolesance of Tucaday. Admiral Dupont
now know

eases, the owners are destroying thelr fences and

preelecly what is to be done, and what | outhouses for the same purpose. The half a dozen

can be done, and hela not the, Admiral Dupont of | Union families, by order of General Granger, are

‘old, if be does not set to work and do it, Not imme-
Sintely—not until he has made his preparations on
the basis of the knowledge which he now po es,

belog supplied with firewood by the soldiers, and
the necessaries of life they are permitted to procure
from the quartermasters at Government rates.

and which military men will sny waa cheaply ac-| Under no conalderation are the rebels permitted to

quired, The balance of power now lies in his own
banda, and before the fall months have set in, we

orgas any of the picket lines, even to attend a func
ral, taless making oath that thoy will not return

mag ece auch a manifestation of It, a8 will gladden | until the termination of the war. There ts onc

the heart of the nation, now unreasonably depr

hotel in town kept by a man named Caruthers, who

cd, and restore the flag of the Union to the battered | 1s !on the fence ;"" but aa there area great many

walls of Sumpter ! OES.

PORT ROYAL.
Taunspay, April 9

‘Since the departure of the Charleston expedition
from thisport, the rebela in this vicinity have grown
conaldernbly bolder, and bave already begun to make
demonstrations of hostility. Yesterday several bo-
dies of their cavalry approached quite close to our
pickets at Beaufort, ae though reconnoltring. Last
night, discovering that the gunbost George Wash-
ington waa aground at Port Royal Ferry, which (s
in the vicinity of Beaufort, they brought down fy-
ing artillery to the shore and fired a shell at her,
Which happening to penetrate the boller, blew her
up. One of her crew was instantly Killed, and three
or four wounded or ecalded bythe explosion, The
ofticers all escaped unharmed. The George Wash-
{ogton wasa smali craft, She had been formerly
used. a fiver tug-boat, then asa cruiser, to drive
away the guerilins from the inlota and oreeke along
the conat, then asa despateh boat for General Ter-
ry, and ‘finally as a gunboat, She was armed
with one small howitzer, and oue twelvepound
riged gun. Although a emall affair, ber destruction
nfBcreated intense excitement in Beaufort, and the
Inhabitants are in momentary expectation of a rebel
ral. Here, at Hilton Head, conelderable alarm
Wkewire prevails. Numbers of autlera aro shipping
their goods North, and tho project of forming a home
guard is again being agitated. The arrival of the
Patapeco yesterday, for the purpose, it is reported,
of guarding agalnet a raid of oue of the Savannab
rams, has not in anywise tended to diminish the ap-
prebenaions of the people.

But there in one incident connected with the
George Washington affair which {s worth relating.
‘To give it a dramatlo sort of interest, a few worda of
preface arenecersary. About three years agoa negro
named ‘Stirrup was kidnapped at the Bshams
Telands, taken to Fernandina, Florida, and thence
eent to St. Mars’s, in the same State, where he
was aold into slavery for eighthundred dollars. We
can only approximate the date of the occurrence,
having nothing to guide us but bia own statement
that he “pent one year with the rebels, and one
year with us.” His master frst set him st work
cutting wood, and then promoted him to the cotton
feld. When the war broke out Stirrup, along with 8
numberof other negroes, took French leave, and came
within our lines, snd bas been employed upon Go-
verament vessels overaince, Some little atir having
been made about his kidoapping, Secretary Seward,
at the request of Lora Lyons, made application to
Secretary Stanton, In January last, to cause inquit
Hes concerniog hla whereabouts to be made by Gen.
Saxton, Inquiries were mode, but without result.
Ou Thuraday [nat the missing man turned up, st Ge
neral Saxton’s headquarters, In search of asslatance.
He had been one of the crew of the George Wash-
Ington, and, finding his occupation gone, he, vingu-
Inrly enough, stumbled upon the very officer who
had been scarohing for him for upwards of three
months. i

He will go North en the Arago, with instructions
to report to the Brilieh conaul. He states that two
other men were attempfed to be kiduapped, but one
of them waa drowned. The other 1s nsmed Edwards,
‘and {s probably still in slavery. .

Mr. Edward L, Pierce, who was the predeceator
of General Saxton at Beaufort, will go North by the
same ateamer, with General Saxton’s report of the
case, which is, altogether, quite romantic.

OES

(Speelal Correspondence of The Presa]
Port RoxAt, S. 0, April 16, 1852,
(On Sunday afternoon, the {2th inat., at forty-Aye
minutes past two o'clock, the tron-clad fect steamed
over the bar, after firing several ahots into the Bulk
ofthe Keokuk.
‘Duriog Sunday night and Monday the seven moni-

fick officers boarding with him, he is permitted to
purchate just enough articles to feed them with.
“No rebel boarders allowed here."”
FRANKLIN BEFORE THE WAR.

Before the breaking out of the rebellion, this was
one of the most beautiful places In Tennessee, It
delightfully situated in Willlamson county, the
moat wealthy, except Davidson and Shelby, which
contain the cities of Nashville and Memphis, in the
State, nud Ls embozomed amid fair hills, being
simoat encircled by the Harpeth river. ‘The farma
are the finest in Middle Tennessee, the Innd boing
of nature to produce cotton, corn, wheat, or to-
bacco. There were several flourishing institutions
for Jearuiog, several churches, 8 newspaper, and an
Intelligent and refined people. The streets are lald
out at great cost, and with much taste, and finely
graded and Macadamized. The Nashville and Hunte-
villé Railroad passes through the place, lt being one
hout'a ride to the eapital of the State. The people
ofthe town, as a majority, opposed Seceanion for
long timo, but finally succumbed, and acted most out-
rageoualy. B.O.T.

ye FRANKLIN, Tena., April 9, 1863.
Whore has been no change in the affuira at this
polnt, and all seems quiet
ON THE HARPETH,
which is falling so rapidly that it may be forded at
‘S&voral places immediately opposite Franklin.
There isa fine pontoon bridge across the river for
the accommodation of foot psssengers, as no onc ia
allowed to pass the railroad bridge outside of the

cara,
NINE MEN OAPTURED.

Night before Inst a large body of rebel cpvalry,
under General Whittield, made a dash in upon the
Liberty road, and, after 8 one-sided skirmish with
our vedettes, the enemy succeeded in capturing the
whole party, numbering nine men, two of whom
Were wounded. Since then the Lines of picket have
deen contracted and strengthened, and several com:
panies are detailed for duty, upon all the pikes,
daily.

% THE SUFFERING INOREASES
among the rebel population, who are most terribly
puabed to get food and fuel. First, those who were
\}4a need of firewood cut down the branches of their
fruit and ornamental trees; but this week they swing
the axe at the trunks of their trees, and, in some
cases, use their shrubbery for kindling wood. Aa
for food, it {a all gone, and the most earnest sollcita-
tions are made to General Granger, who coolly in-
forma all who aro disloyal that “ rebela are entitled
to, and will receive, no consideration from him."
‘He has s happy way of giving them this bit of (-
formation without msking them mad, From what
Thave aeen of many of our generals, Granger Is the
least diapozed to argue with rebels, and in the least
susceptible. The pretty wid6ws with charming
waya, the pretty girls with pretty eyes, and the wily
old rebele of both sexes, have not the slightest tau
ence with General Granger. He would makes firat-
rate commander at Nashville.
A JUST BANISHMENT.

Thear (t whispered at headquarter this morning
that General Granget will shortly eend out of the
lines all those who have alded and abetted treason
{o Franklin and its neighborhood. The people have
gohan inkling that something of that sort is about
todranepire, and many old raecals are endeavoring
to prove honorable antecedents. But this will not
do, Ifthe axe does fall, the necks of all rebels—old
and young, rich ard poor, male and female—will
feel Ito weight, a

MINOR ITEMS.

The fort is rapidly approaching completion. It
will mount several heavy guns, aad the combined
worka will have a range of the whole county.

There are aix generals here—Major Geperal
Granger, Brigadier Generals Green, Clay, Smith,
and Baird, and General Gilbert

tora made thelr way to this port, all without ely eaegie eonernt ‘antioipatea a Bght at Brentwood
eoriny;

that is, none of them required to be towed or con
vyoyed. t
‘The new Ironsidea remains on the blockade at
Oharleston.
Our troops, mostly cavalry, still remain in posses-
sion of Folly Island, the headquarters being at,

Stono. Among the troops stationed on the strip of

land between North Edisto and Stono may be men-
tioned General Stevens’ brigade,
mortar schooners and two sunboate are atationed in
both harbors,

Three of our

‘abd there Is dome exoitement in camp in
cousequence. © ~ !
‘The weather is very Ane, and the health of the
troops is improving.
Twenty-one deserters belonging to General Gran-
ger’a command arrived here yesterday. BO, T.

A REBEL CAVALRY DASH.
FRANKLIN, Tenp., April 11, 1853.
‘The officers of guard yesterday, before starting to
relieve the regiment on duty acroga the river, r~

I have boarded most of the monitors aince they | ceived orders in regand to Increased vigilance, from
arrived here, the Weehawken among the rest, and'{ the fact that Gen. Granger believed, from the mys-

can affirm that they are not much damaged. In no
case haa the furret been pierced ; and I do not think

terlous movements of the tnecrutable enemy, that
something would turn up before night. The conjec-

that any single shot entered or penetrated the armor | tures of the commanding general proved correct;
of the vesscls, save the emoke-atacke—and that, you | for, bardly had the regimenta on duty been re

know, Js unimportant, The turret of the Weehawken

ne struck by Il-inch shot in many placre, and by | dashed in upon the Columbia and Libérty pike
several of the ateel-pointed missiles. They did ng | Gen. Haines commanded the force which enters

Meved, before Van Dorn, with about 2,000 cavalry,

damage beyond the breaking olf of a few bolt-beads. | town upon the Columbia pike, and Gen. Whitworth
Her deck was considerably bruised and tho plates | tore who ¢ame in upon the Liberty pike, The
twisted or bent outof place, but not enough to make | cavalry vedettes gave the falarm, and most of our

her take water. The Weekawken fired 25 shot, and

Jofantry managed to escape. We heard several shota

recelyed the hardest fire. Not one of the monitor |'Hred, and, in a few momenta, our horse and feot sol-

waa bit as often as she.

diers came rushing for the railroad and pontoon

Throughout the fleet, among the sallora and petty |/bridges, pell mell, in company with half a dozen clti-
officers, a general dissatisfaction prevalls. They | 2en8- Immediately in the rear of our troops were
were anxious, and are still anxious, to prosecute | the rebel cavalry, chasing and oceasionslly Bring

the attack.

upon our) men, most of whom successfully crossed

T have learned from authentic sourcea that the | the bridges. In the meantime, the long roll was
line of obstructions extenda from Sumpter to Moul- | beaten upon this ride of the river, and the division
trle, and consists of a heavy webbing or net-work, | 0CGen- Baird, before the rebels got well into town,
made of large¥ropes or haweers, This netvork ig | Was inline of battle, No unusualexcitement took
Interwoven with torpedoes, the whole line being | Place, ax Gen. Granger hoped to decoy the enemy to
made fast on the bottom by anchora, and then al: | the south bank of the river, believing thelr intention

lowed to owing with the current, east or we
the case may be.

to be the destruction of thy railroad bridge, The
enemy, however, ,did not venturo within a hundred

Our new monitor, making eight in all, arrived | yards of Harpeth river, but drew up in ne in town.

here yeaterday from the North.
The propeller Haze has just come into port,

frelghted with {ron plating for the monitora’ decka, | And" several Dattalions drawn up in lines. in
They are all to be strengthened by thisarrival inthe | €sbelons. To
way of additional covering. A few days (perhaps | thirty-two

From the bill this side of the river, we could per
éeive the butternuts in all parts of the town,
a few moments two heavy
ounders from the fort, and two sectlous
of light artillery opened upon the rebel cavalry, and

Weeks) will find them stronger than before the | shelled them out of town without opposition. The

attack on Charleston,

guns sbelled away until they got far out upon the

I can atate, upon good authority, that there is no | pikes they came in upon, leaving thelr dead and
a

misunderstanding ot personal difficulty between

Wounded lying upon the ground in the streets of
Fronklio, Evidently, the whole thing was a feint,

Hunter dud Dupont. Rumors to the contrary are | or q reconnoitring of a cew fort which we have

incorrect. at
ARMY OF THE CUMBERLAND,

(Speclal Correspondance of The Press}
FRANKLIN, Tenn, April.

nearly completed. I have not beea in town this
morning, as it 1a not deemed prudent to cross the
flyer yet. In nll probability we ehall picket the
town he uaual before night. We lost about thirty
men prizoners and three wounded. We lost no man
Killed. Two rebel cavalrymen. who were pursulog
Aoaptain of one of the Ohio regiments, were shot

‘That portion of the Army of Kentucky which ia | dead, while crosaing & little vale near the river, by

under command of Gen. Granger {a encamped upon
the north side of this town.
GEN. GRANGER AND STAFF.
Major Gencral Gorton Granger has his quarters
ina beautiful garden, ovned by m beautiful rebel,
and the tents of his staff officers surround him in
this beautiful place, to the grest astonishment of the
owner,
Gen, Granger i one of the Sineat gentlomen, and
one of the bravest officers, in the service, Ho is one

of the few men who understand how to administer

¢. sentinels who were doing duty upon the rail-
bridge. Ido not think any feara need be enter-
tained for the safety of this command, aa our posi
tlon ia 8 very aioe! one, and the general snd his
officers and men extremely vigilant, B.O.T.

PARSON BROWNLOW ys. JOHN SLIDELL.
JEPY DAVIS THE REPUDIATOR.
CLAVELAND, Oho, April 13, 1662,
To the Edilor of The New York Times:
Th your leaue of the 11th {oat,, I find the following
eard, taken from the London Times:
Mr Dean Sin: I am inclined to think that peo-

alfaire in a rebel neighborhood, and ia the only one ple {n London confound Mr, Reuben Davia, whom

I know who gives universal satisfaction to the Union

have always understood to haye taken the lead on

citizens. As Is seldom the case, oll of his statt oiti- | the question of repudiation, with President Davis.

cers are quiet, gentlemanly soldier, and deal with

rebels, without any deviation, according to the | {t was nego!
General's rules, As General Granger pursues one | or duricg bi

Tam not aware that the latter was ever in any way
identified with that question. I am confident that

during his canvass for Governor,
administration. The Union Bank

course, and one oaly, I will give you a brief desorip- | bonds were issued in direst violation of nn express

tlon of his mode of

TREATING LOYAL AND DISLOYAE PEO- | Hani for the repudiation of which neither excure
There are but hal{ a dozen Union fnmilfes in,| dent that Jeflerson Davis never approved or just

constitutional provision. There ls 8 wide diterence
between these bona and thore of the Planters’

nor palliation cap be offered. I feel pertestly conti

Franklin, out of s population of 1,600 inhabitants, | fied that repudiation, What may have been hie

‘The Union people are put to no snconvenience
are allowed to go anywhere within our Mnes,
the Secessloniat

and | 2

hile | Baak bonds, Ido not know.
male and female, (and especially,

private opinions of the refusal to consider, Missle-
Bippi bound to provide for the payment of the Union
JOHN SLIDELL.

Tdesire to say that Mr. Slidell hss denied for Jet

the ladies, who generally get all they deairo from our | {eon Davis what the Jetter never dared deny, and

commanders of poste,) are deprived of all privileges,

neret will, over his own signature This anxiety

‘and forbidden to leave the town, upon the penalty | 9 free the rebel President from the disgraceful

charge of having been the advocate, if not tho chich

of being arreated as a spy. When peraons apply to | of ilealesippl repudiation, {s intended to aid the rebel
the general for passes; be docs not ask them If they, | causa in England, and fo help on the so-called * Con-
will take the oath, or if they ate willing to acknow- | federnte loan." Mr. Shuell certalnly never intendez
ledge the Federal Government, but inqulrea Have | Of fen expected this eard to appear in the American

you ‘always been a loyal subject of the United
States?) He admits of but one answer,prefaced by

ho Lis and nods, If they anawer "Yea," he makea | four years ago, I heard Heoty
them prove thelr loyalty. If they answer ‘No,'' | em

he informs them that,he considers)that none but
loyal people are entitled to privileges, and granta

newspapers. At the State Convention In Nashville
that bominated John Netherland for Governor, to
upon the Union ticket, against Ieham G. Harris,
tewart Foote, now 8

ir of thé rebel Congress, denounce Jefferson
Dayle, before as large an audience xa could be
graded into. he Capito), ae a repudiator And a dis
untonut; and he boasted of having beaten Davis for

none; and all the talling, smiles, and taking of | Governor before thereal people of Misaissippl, upon
onthe amounta to nothing with bim, and he gives | these twolesucs, Iwasediting a paper in Tennessce
the applicants to understand that, ‘The misery and | Attbe time of that contest, and, av s Union man, T ex-

SUFFERINGS OF THE REBELS

can hardly be imagined. They have no firewood,
‘and in two weeks more will have nothing to cat,
Not a market wagon Is allowed to enter town, All
of the rebels are engaged in cutting down thelr fruit

ulted over the race Foote made, and the disunioniate
throughout the South regretted the suoceea of Foote.
Jefferéon Davia and Reuben Davis were both repudi-
Glors of the meanest and deepest dye, and oo man
knew ithetter than Joho Slide, living in the ad-
Joining State of Loulalana |

Tam, &0,, W. G, BROWNLOW,

LETTERS OF “« OOCASIONAL.”

Wasnrxetox, April 14, 1863.

The fate of Poland contains a lesson that
America should learn. Tecan, of course, find
no comparison in these countries beyond
this, that America 1s fighting to maintain
her nationality, while Poland is fighting to
obtain the birthright which an oppressor
took away. The great crime of history
holds Poland in chains; the great crime of
modern civilization caused the South to
rebel. The fate of Poland is so far deve-
loped that we can profit by her unfortunate
example. She perished because of dissen-
sion and rivalry in her own counsels. The
leaders failed to realize the sublimity of
patriotism which yields everything to
the good of the cause, Instead of
consolidating and making effective war
upon the common enemy, they quar-
relled with one another, Langiewicz had
hardly assumed the reins of power, and
made the cause of Poland respectable in the
eyes of the world by his energy and valor,
before another son of Poland advanced his
claims to tho illustrious and perilous posi-
tion, The rest is briefly told. The armies
of Poland were demoralized ; they wasted
the energies that should have been directed
against Russia in civil commotion, and their
cause perished. Langiewicz is a prisoner
and a fugitive, and Russia is again the mas-
ter of the kingdom. Diplomacy has been
appealed to to do what the word of the Pole
might have more effectually accomplished.
The elements that combined to produce the
overthrow of Poland msy be found in the
United States, We have seen among our
generals the same spirit of rivalry and
jealousy thst resulted so shamefully to
them. We’ have scen generals discussing
personal grievances within sound of the
enemy's cannon. We haye seen timidity
where we looked for courage, and apathy
where we expected devotion ; deceit instead
of honor, and fraud instead of honesty. The
report of the Committee on the Conduct of
the War is a vast catalogue of these sins
and errors; and if we look over the roll of
battles we shall be mortified to sce how
many precious golden moments have been
Jost, because the proper spirit did not ani-
mate the servants of the Republic. Then
turn to the political situation. In eyery
part of the loyal North we find men bold
and bad enough to ayow sympachy with the
South, and to make that sympathy the
basis of political action against the Ad-
ministration, ‘‘ Let the Administration
be overthrown,’” say these enemies, ‘ and
wwe shall construct another.” This was
the cry in Poland. Langiewicz fell, but
the Russians, and not his rival, triumphed.
Depose Mr. LinosIn, and Mr. Davis, or a
worse than Mr. Davis, will take his place.
‘Then we sball have the fire, the sword, the
scaffold, and a bloody saturnalia of retribu-
tion and crime. We baye reached the tum-
bling-point: in this struggle. One or ano-
ther must full, for the strength of the North
and South are braced to the utmost. The
country necds the energy and faith of every
man, and whoever fails ber in this hour of
trial is a traitor more degraded than Judas,
and more infamousthan the first-born, Caln.
One betrayed his Master, the other betrayed
and slew his brother; and to-day our master
and brother is the nation. OccastonaL.

Wasninetox, April 15, 1863.

I find the English journals discussing the
future of the African race, as affected by
the war. The London Times, which never
ceased in the days of peace to revile Ame-
rica for the crime of slavery, isnow slavery’s
ablest and most audacious defender. This
strange exhibition of feeling is one of the
most extraordinary phases of the war. I
can easily imagine an Englishman who
wished for the success of the South and the
dissolution of the Union, believing that
slavery would perish with the Union, 1
can imagine an Englishman” acting in
harmony with the South, hoping thereby
to break down the power of the Republic,
and thus rescue the free North from the
tyranny of Southern dominstion. I can
imagine any possible reason for friendship
to the South but that assigned by the Zimes.
To defend the cause of the South is no-
thing more than to defend treason; but to
strengthen that defence by becoming the
friend and eulogist of a system that is re-
yolting to every instinct of humanity, is to
add to the cyime an infamy that cannot be
described. The argument of the English
newspaper is repeated by the disloyal press
of the North and South. The war is made
to involve only the question of slavery.
‘The people are continually told to look upon
the negro as a rival; an enemy; the cause
of all their trouble ; an offensive, disagreen-
ble, half brutish being, who has left a happy
home in the South to create mischief in the
North by taking away from the laborer his
means of life. The negro is constantly
used to create demoralization and disgust
among those who donot think, You re-
member the appalling riot in Detroit, and
the brutal outbreaks we occasionally see in
New York and other Northern cities, Re-
calling the coarse and ungrateful speech of
General Patterson last summer, and the
studied tone of the Democratic journals and
jeaders, I have no doubt that it is their in-
tention to inflame the minds of the people
into a condition of anarchy and madness.
Democratic politicians bave signalized them-
selyes by offering petitions for the banish-
ment and the prohibition of the negroes now
in your State and in other States, and cre-
ate constant irritation by the discussion of
impossible problems, in which the social
condition of the whites is disadyantageously
compared with that of the negro. Without
pursuing this subject—for, my object this
morning is simply to point’ out the! fol-
lies and wickedness of otbers, and | gi
no argument of my own—there can be no
greater crime than this effort to array a race
againsta race.’ The leaders do not sufler.
They summon the storm and dy from it,
like the fierce and cowardly leaders of the J
cobins, Who made the people drunk with wine
and gunpowder, and, throwing open the
doors of the prisons, leh the poor victims to
the pikes and poignards of the mob, while
they fled themselves from a vengeance that
might have returned with the returning
tide of popular passion. ‘This negro ques-
tion is one that must settle itself. The laws
of Nature, society, political economy, sup-
ply and demand, will govern aud decide it.
Tt is but an incident of the war. The
President published his proclamation of

Emancipation just as be published his pro-

clamations establishing the blockade and
preventing intercourse with the Southera
States. It was a wor messure, and thus far
slavery has only perished by the natural
effect of the war. The Southern people
have made it the foundation of strength
and power, and as’ we war upon their
strength and power, we find slayery in the
‘ange of our cannon-balls, When Englisk
writers, therefore, attempt te prejudice our
cause by representing the negro as the
victim of Northern rapacity and heartless-
ness, and the Democratic leaders appeal to
the basest passions of men to excite ven-
geance and massacre, they are not only
guilty of a wrong to this country but to am
humble and helpless race. OccAstoNAL.

Wasnrnoton, April 16, 1863.

Our relations with England are exciting
much attention. You must not accépt ag
authoritative any of the rumors that burder
the -New York papers, as, in a matter as
graye as this, the policy of the Government
will be dictated by events, and will be put-
sued with calmness and caution. A war
with England is not to be invited, and, as in
the case of the Trent, we must be prepared to
go to the verge of endurance before plunging
into the strife. A war with England ‘at
this time would haye the effect of giving to
the South, which hss now one of the gréat-
est military establishments in the world, the
greatest nayal power. It is possible that wa
might commission a hundred privateers, and
destroy the commerce of England, but that
in itself would be a malignant and fruitlésa
revenge. We should certainly have our
own commerce destroyed; our iron-clids
would be compelled to hurry home to
defend our cities and harbors, and tha
famishing South would receive new life
from the Old World. England is so placed
in the bosom of the contending seas that a
successful invasion of her shores would be
almost an impossibility, snd. particularly
when the expeditions would be compelled
to carry their resources over a wide ind
strictly-guarded ocean. Instead of inflicting
a blockade, we should suffer from one, and
the distresses of Lancashire would be re-
peated in New England and Pennayl-
yanis. I am not a lover of England; I
feel keenly the injuries she has’ inflict-
ed upon us, and the constant want of
faith she has manifested during the pre-
sent war; and when I read the heartless
speeches of England's Prime Minister, and
the cheers that the “House of Commons be-
stows upon them, while such men as Bir.
Bright, Mr. Baring, and Mfr. Forster are
listened to with apathy and dislike ; when I
remember, too, the prompt and ready cour-
tesy that has always marked the conduct of
the United States towards England, I can-
not restrain the indignation which every
American must entertain. But goyern-
ments are not actuated by passion. .They
have grave interests to consider, and- the
gravest of all is the happiness of the people.
War is a misery, not only to the wounded
and slain, but tothe thousands that nevec
know the battle, and whose wounds ara
more poignant than those of the sword ot
the bullet. It is the last resort ofa free and
proud people. When England attacks our
freedom or our pride we shall welcome the
alternative with joy. The present trouble
srises out of the case of the Alabama, The
English journals seem to be ashamed of this
transaction, and, notwithstanding the ef.
frontery of the Ministry, we find their
organs weak and verbose. The Times, 50
audacious and unscrupulous at all times,
speaks like an adyocate who does, not
believe in his cause, and the popular feel-
ing responds so feebly, and with so much
reluctance, that they are evidently ashamed
of the whole transaction. The ministerial
agentsare clamoring about the case of the
Poterhoff, with the evident hope of weaken-
ing our complaints about the Alabama. The
case of the Peterhoff is at the best but an
exhibition of unusual zeal on the, part of
Admiral Wilkes. It has, been referred to
the proper courts, and England will have
justice. If we sre wrong in this matter, we
shall admit the error and make all repara-
tion. There is nothing in either of these
questions to excite our passions, or give us
any reason to anticipate war. No feeling
of confidence in the ministers of her, Ma-
jesty's Government induces this beliet ; but
a feeling of confidence in the people, in the
rough and hardy men who liye by* labor,
and sympathize with the effort of America
to ennoble labor and make the cause of De-
mocracy triumphant. Ihave confidence in
Jobn Bright. His mighty soul—rising above
the allurements of a court or a cabinet, with
the blood of the people in his veins, and the
true interests of the people his great ambi-
tion—grasps the issues now being deter-
mined in America. He is to us the true
leader of English sentiment. He is the
Saxon, and he represents the struggle of
eight centuries against the Norman, That
struggle was never nearer a triumpl than
now. England is becoming weary of rents,
tenantry, privileges, and aristocracy.’ The
Englishman looks out of his mill and his
mine with feelings of degraded pride, long-
ing for the day when God's creatures shall
be permitted to enjoy God's free gifts. Do
not be deceived by: the’ constant and
fulsome professions of loyalty that we
constantly hear from England. It had a
great rejoicing a few days since, and in the
midst of the ceremony and merriment, the
aristocrats of England looked upon America
and thanked God that they were not a3
other men were. The roses covered the
volcano, but did not smother it; and the
music of the wedding march bad not been
hushed In the chapel of St. George, before
the smoke appeared, aud the cry of bread was
heard in Manchester. That delightful writer,
Mr. Hawthorne, in one of his recent essays,
sail that in Eugland he always fuueied Le
heard the rumbling of a coming earthquake;
and that although everything was cali and
placid, the old seemed “about to perish be-
fore the new. If anything at ull could
husten the end, it would be the, course of
the aristocracytowards America. We leave
the English rulers to the: English jieople.
Let us not think of wars; but while defend-
i own honor, leave onr cause'to the
brave and true men who are struggling for
the principles that must soo trion.pl in
En <1 over all the workd.

Occasiox AL.

land,

Wasmixoron, April 17, 1863,
The ulluir at Charleston is the opening of
the new campaign. Anisolated undertaking,

and without any possible effect on the general

'A

strategy of the war, the failure is little
more than a yerdict of sclence against us.
Jam glad that Mr. Ericsson thinks otherwise,
Dut the world will probably accept results
for theories, and decide against him. The
moral effect of such a misfortune is also to be
‘Considered, although, after all, the opinions
‘of the world seem to be so fixed and partial,
that moral effect is a mere term of etymo
Jogy. We hnye had additional reuson to be
roud of our navy, ind out of the gloom
‘and smoke that enveloped Fort Sumpter, that
‘noble branch of the service hus come forth
with glory. Charleston, as I have said, is
the opening of the new, and, as many thivk,
the final campaign. The strategy of the Just
two years hrs had the eflect of reducing,
concentrating, eliminating, the extended field
of our military. operations. ‘That ingenious
writer, Mr. Schalk, whose Uneories on the
srt of war have created so much atten:
tion, makes it the axiom of all his demon-
strations, that.the true purpose of war is to
dreak up and demoralize the opposing
armies. Annibilate the amilitary power of
the South and all else will come after, for
the country is so exhausted that another
army is an. impossibility, and it must sink
helpless at our feet. This is the point to
which everything is now tending. New-
bern, Port Royal, Key West, and New Or-
Jeans are little more than blockading sta-
tions, They may be taken and retaken
without affecting the game. They are the
smaller pieces with nominal values—the
King is at Richmond, snd there he must be
checkmated. Taken in their general re-
sults, we have not had.as yet a successful
expedition, These expeditions have been
mere incisions in the flesh—a vein or two
was severed—the blood came forth—but the
life was untouched, We must abandon ex-
peditions that merely have an agricultural,
social, or commercial purpose, and give our
soldiers and sailors mere chances for glory
without domg anything toward the grand
result, We must concentrate ourselves and
move against the life of the rebellion. It seems
to inyite us. Vicksburg, Chattanooga, and
Richmond are the three remaining heads of
the hydra,—and when they are stricken the
monster dies. Grant mepaces Vicksburg,
—Rosecrans holds the line of the Cumber-
Innd, and protects the Northwest—Hooker
Jooks proudly on Richmond. We must
crush these armies before we think of vic-
tory. It is possible that the armies of Vick
burg and Chattanooga may unite, and throy
ing themselves on Rgsecrans, beat him and
General Grant in detail. That is a contin-
gency against which these generals must pro-
‘vide; although when I heard the'recent ru-
smors of the evacuation of Vicksburg by the
rebels, I feltapprehensive, In the Exst, we
have the great army at Richmond. Our
military men are speculating upon its future
movements. Will it retreat or receive battle?
At seems to be certain that General Hooker
‘will not offer battle under the heights of
Fredericksburg, making that memorable
plain another Aceldama for the national
army, It is not probable that the rebels will
accept battle in any other position, and we
may therefore expect our advance or their
retreat, and probably a new campaign upon
an interior line of operations, General
Hooker, however, is not aman to dwell
Jong upon interior lines of operation. He
neither digs, nor permits others to dig, and
having unearthed Lee out of his present
hiding-place, there will be an carnest chase
and fierce work before he is permitted to find
another cover, These seem to be the ge-
neral features of the new campaign. It is
not for me to predict,'nor to teach. None
can control the uncertain chances of war,
and we must content ourselves with hoping,
praying, comforting, and standing together
shoulder to shoulder in support of the Ad-
miinistration. Never before did the Goyern-
ment go truly need the comfort and friend-
ship of the people. These brightening
days and pleasant skies—this gentle sun
“that smiles upon struggling nature as it
comes forth to gladden the carth—all these
tokens ofa genial and fertile spring predict
the speedy opening df a new campaign. It
is strange that so much beauty should be
‘the harbinger of blood; but we regard the
future without a shuddering thought, ‘The.
affiir at Charleston," said a rebel journalist
a few days ago, ‘will soon be lost in the
thundering rush of events.” Thus you sce
that our enemy expect what we ure prepared
to give—quick, fierce, and decisive war.
Ltt it come quickly! I look upon the
struggle with impatience and upon the fu-
ture with hope, for I have faith in the
prowess of my countrymen and in the
goodness of Almighty God.
OccAsIONAL.

Wastinoton, April 20, 1853.
We are haying some new scengs in the
great drama of the war, ‘The last would ve
ominous if it had not been revealed too
early, and been managed by parties almost
‘openly Secession. It is, that if there is not a
great yictory over the rebels ‘‘in the coming
campaign,'’ to use the language of the Jn-
wlligencer, the Administration must prepare
for dreudful consequences—the plain mean-
ing of which is, that, in the event of de-
feat, the rebellion must be declared victo-
rious, and the usurpation of the traitors
acknowledged. But this expedient will de-
ceive nobody. Comingas it does from those
who haye never felt a single conscientious
conviction in the necessity of this great,
effort for the preservation of the Go-
yernment, it must be regurded only as a
new indication of their desire to em-
Darrass the Administration, and to termi-
nate the war at any sacrifice of honor or of
territory. It is the interest of no patriotic
man to protract the war. Every energy of
the Executive, and of all his representatives,
civil and military, is devoted to the achieve-
ment of yictory oyer the cnemy. Suppose,
however, this victory does notcome to us
in “the coming campaign:” are we then
to yield to the new proposals of those who
are only desirous of peace with the rebels,
and are, therefore, really in earnest for de-
feat, and not for triumph? I need not ask
a question when I can so well anticipate the
indignant reply. If it should so fall’ out,
that God will not give us the advantage in
“the coming campaign,” we must eyen pro-
ceced to make another effort. Every hour
proyes that cither the ‘old flag or the new
one must succeed; either the Government
of our fathers, or the rebellion of a portion
o! their degenerate and ingrate descend-
ants. The best way to realize the dread-
ful impossibility of a peace not based upon
ne entire country, is to attempt to mark

FORNEY’S WAR PRESS.-PHILADELPHIA, SATURDAY, APRIL 25, 1863.

the limits of vision, the terms o!
purtition, the conditions of separation.
You might as successfully divide the
human body, and expect the heart'to beat,
‘is to separate the American Republic and
expect liberty to live, Every great national
interest, whether of trade and commerce, or of
society and religion, would perish in a maze
of factions and a cea of blood; and order
would only be restored by the strong bund
of the despot. The human frame is not
more closely knitted together than are the
freedom of the people and the entirety of the
soil of America.

This scheme to give a new impetus to the
rebellion, by holding out the hope that the
people of the free States will be willing to
ree to separation, if the next movognents
of our army are not crowned with suce
is suggested at a moment when’ through
every organ of the Confederacy, fiom Davis
himself and his so-called Cabinet to the self-
constituted Governors of the different sec-
tions where the rebels hold sway, we hear
the cry that there is a prospect of want of
food for both troops and people. Their cot-
ton trade brings them neither corn nor be
und without these they must perish. Com-
pare this confession of poverty and pro-
spective famine wifh the superabundant re-
sources of the Joyal States, and you haye
the best argument to set-off the. cry that we
are unable to put down the rebellion. If
we cannot defeat them “in the coming cam-
paign’ by force of arms, we at least hold the
whole of the free and loyal States clear of
violence and bloodshed, and can exhaust
them by our own steady, resolute, and un-
shaken constancy.

There is another element which enters
largely into the future. I mean the rigor
and system of the organization of the ne-
groes in the Southwest. Adjutant General
‘Thomas, now in the department of General
Grant, has stated the case so fully as to
leave no doubt as to the purpose of the Ad-
ministration on this question. You will
haye seen how his appeals to the white
soldiers have been received. They hail this
experiment as one that is certain to operate
advantageously upon themstlves and the
cause. You will have algo noticed that not
ouly has no dissent been expressed by the
troops, but that the general officers, in-
cluding some of the imost distinguished
Democrats, haye voluntarily nnd’ cordially
endorsed his recommendations. It is it~
possible for any mau of sense to resist the
powerful arguments in the speeches of the
Adjutant General. The approach of the
warm weather, the expiration of the term
of many of the regiments in Louisiana, and
the immense increase of fugitives who
run from their masters on the approach
of our forces, render this act of the
Government a mattér of wisdom, as it
is clearly humane and necessary. Un-
der a proper régime, and with good lesd-
ers, the whole character of the war in the
Southwest will thus assume s new charac-
ter. As General Thomas well remarks, the
rebels haye had every chance to ayail them-
selves of the generous offer in the President's
Proclamation, snd baying rejected that,
they cannot complain if the Government
acts out ita policy by declaring their slaves
to be free, and by taking care that if they
are to be used in war, it shall not be
against the American Republic,

There are ten thousand remedies yet to be
tried before the craven demand for an igno-
minious peace is responded to by the people.
‘ASIONAL. '

Sorney’s Tar Press,

SATURDAY, APRIL 2

, 1863.

A KING FOR GREECE.

‘The Revolution, which drove a German
dynasty from the throne of Greece, was una-
nimously and quietly effected on the 22d of
last October, without the effusion of one
drop of blood, Never was any great na-
tional movement go peacefully and yet so
completely executed. After a reign of thirty
years—for Ormo of Bavaria condescended to
accept the Crown on the 5th October, 1852,
he then having attained the mature age of
secenteen! —the Bayarian-Greco dynasty
tumbled down, precisely like the castie built
of cards with which childhood amuses itself.
What ensued is so notorious that we necd
not here detail it. The leading Greeks,
mysteriously imbued with the idea that
an English prince would be ‘the
most desartless man’? for the situation, and
probably deceived by British misrepresenta-
tions, elected Prince ALFRED, a midshipman
of eighteen, and the national yote confirmed
this. England, however, having obtained
such a complimentary demonstration for one
of her princes, coyly declared that he could
not be spared, So the election went for
nothing. Queen Vieronra, however, though
too much overwhelmed with grief at the
death of her husband, in 1861, showed her-
self perfectly able, as well as willing, to
attend to the interests of her family. Doubly
a Cobourg, by descent and by marringe,
she used every effort in her power to prevail
upon her cousin, Ferpranb of Cobourg,
(who had been King-Consort of Portugal, )
to become a candidate for the crown of.
Greece, and, on his judicious declension of
the proffered dignity, next tried to place her
brother-in-law and -cousin, the reigning
Duke of Saxe Cobourg-Gotha, in the
fame position. Of him it might be said,
“Barkis is willing,” provided means
were taken to put Greece out'of debt be-
fore he ascended the throne, The na-
tional debt is not very much, (somewhat
about $5,000,000 we believe, ) but it is due
to England, France, and Russia, and, at all
events, the two latter Powers did not exactly

see the necegsity of foregoing their respective
claims, as creditors, in order to help a Ger-
man prince, the protégé and near relative of
the Queen of England,

So, the second
Cobourg candidature fell through. A third

was slightly manceuyred for, in the person
of the Count of Flanders, cousin to Queen

(uncle of Vierorts and ALneRt,) but the
astute ruler of Belgium had too much saga-
city and prudence to permit 8 son of his to
run such a risk. }

‘At Jast, after a suspense of five months,
the Greeks have made a choice, evidently
at the suggestion or under the influence
of England, in the person of the brother-
inlaw of the Prince of Wales... The
young gentleman, who is to reign under
the title of GEonex the First, of Greece,
is brother of Anexanpna, the yobng
lady who miarried the Prince of Wales, on
the 10th of March, He was seventeen
years old at Christmas. Like Prince
AvFRED, he ig a cadet in the navy—of
Denmark, not of England. He was brought
up in the Lutheran faith, but would proba-
bly not make much objection to becoming a
member of the Greek Church, inasniuch as
his second sister, ManrA-Sornta-FREDE-
RICA-DAOMER, Will probably become \the
wife of the Césaravitch, heir to the throne
of Prussia, and must change her faith pre-
viously, The new King of Greece, Who
will he eighteen years old at the close of
this year, is called Cnmrstran-W1L1tAxe
Fenvinanp-Abovrnus-Georor, — Nomi-
ually a Danish prince, by his father's hay-
ing been adopted by the Parliament of Den-
mark, he really is thoroughly German; by
birth and blood. The Greeks, then, baye
cast off ong German ruler to obtain another.
‘The nation expelled a Bavarian prince, and
must take up.a prince of the petty housé- of
Schleswig - Holstein - Sonderbourg - Glugks-
bourg. What. is more, they dismissed a
man, and have replaced him with a Foy.

No. Not the Greeks. It happens that
Greece has nothing to do but accept, as
King, him whom three of the great Powers
of Europe, (3. e. France, Russin, and. Bel-
gium,) may place before them, Until ‘the
marriage of the Prince of Wales with the
Princess ALEXANDRA was talked of, no bue
dreamed of a psendo-Danish ruler 'for
Greece. It is certain. that, in the matter
of advancing her relations and covnexions,
Queen Vicrorra is a true Cobourg. “No
sooner was her son engaged to the Princess
ALEXANDRA, than the expediency of putting
that handsome young Iady’s brother on the
throne of Greece came to be ‘conkidered by
Vicrornta. We donot yet know whether
his nomination was made with the congur-
rence of France and Russia, nor whethet
Europenn royalty, in general, will accept
this youth into “the family of Kings.»
But we do know that to place the Prince of
Wales’ brother-in-law. on the throne of
Greece, would be a political move greatly in
favor of British influence in the Medi-
terranean, the Levant, and the southeast of
Europe.

The King elect of Greece, we beg leave
to add, has a younger brother, Prince Wat-
DEMER, Who, like the rest of the fami};
very poor. In fulness of time British influ-
ence may be exercised for Aim. Let us sug-
gest, as the South want a King, (according
toMr, Russevt,) that Prince WaLpEMEn.
would bean eligible person for their choice,
It is true that his Royal Highness will not
complete his fit year until next<October,
and would have a long minority; but the
\Southern monarchy will not be constructed,
atany rate, before he comes to manhood,
‘and, if he possess the Christian virtue of pa-
tience, he can live in hope, -unti that eygnt
takes place.

THE PETERHOFF OASE. .

Earl Russev.’s letter which we pnnt
to-day, concorning the seizure of British
vessels suspected of a design to break the
blockade, is both important and interesting
at the present juncture. The British mihis-
ter distinctly acknowledges the right of
Federal cruisers to capture and detain, for
examination in the prize courts, alll British
vessels bound (ostensibly) for Matamoros
or Vera Cruz, whose intentions are open to
suspicion, and he declares that the English
Goyernment will only interfere in their
behalf in a case where they have been
wrongfully held, and the courts have re-
fused them redress, This position of Earl
Russern isin strict accordance with the
past policy of Great Britain, and is‘clearly
just and proper. But if the opinions ofthe
noble Earl do not possess extraordinary
novelty, it ia well, nevertheless, that they
should be expressed so clearly at the pre-
sent time, when the case of the Peterhoff
is being agitated in both nations. The. fol-
lowing sentences, which convey the gist of
the communication, will show how ground-
less such agitation has been, and, perhaps,
convince some of the most skeptical that
England is less disposed to provoke war
with us now tban she wasat the time of the
Trent affair: “It is the right of the bellige-
rent to capture all vessels reasonably sus-
pected of either of these transgreesions of
international law, and whenever any, auch
case of capture is alleged, the case cannot
be withdrawn from the consideration of the
prize court of the captor, After the case
has undergone investigation, it is the duty
of the prize court to restore any such prizes
unlawfully made, with costs and dajnages;
and the proper time for the interfertince of
her Majesty’s Government is, in general,
when the prize courts have refused redress
fora capture which the evidence shows to.
have been unjustifiable.” If the Peterhoft
was not a Jawful prize, the court, having
been thus kindly instructed in its duty by
the British Secretary, will doubtless make
proper restitutios to. the owners. If she was
properly confiseable, English interference is
the last evil we have cause to fear, and the
last eyil we should tolerate.

INDIAN COTTON MANUFACTURE.

We learn trom England, in advance of
newspaper information, that the Lancasbire
cotton-spinners are “putting the screw?
upon Lord Panwenstox and his thinisterial
colleagues, to bienk down the flimsy, if not
nominal, neutrality which Englind affects
to have set up, and to acknowledye the in-
dependence snd nationality of the reyolted
South, without avy further delay, A par-
ticular) development in India has greatly
alarmed the distnterested cotton-lords. There
are numerous very wealthy merchants and
traders in India, sagacious and enterprising,
who, it is said, have determined to. go into
the cotton business, with energy and money.
‘These are chiefly Parsees, and generally re-
side in Bombay, whereaindeed, they have a
well-conducted English newspaper, called
The Indian Gentleman's Gazette. OF this
crowd of rich mercliants, the late Sir Jast-
BETJEE JEJEEDKOY, (created Baronet in

VicrortA and second son of King Lkorotp, | 1857, ) long was head, and his successor and

‘

namesake, the inheritor of his vast wealth,
a shrewd man of fifty-two, now holds:his
Immense fortune, and has inherited his
standing and influence, The Parsees of
Bombay can expend thousands where the
Lancashire cotton-lords would be afraid to
risk hundreds,

It is stated to us that their project is not to
sell and send Indias cotton to England, but
to retain it in India, and themselves to manu-
facture it into the various fabrics into which
it is now converted in Europe—at least,
into such fabrics as.are in demand in India,
China, and the East generally. They can
ensily obtain the necessary machinery, and
may Wholly supersede, in a short time, all
foreign cotton manufactures. The British
cotton-lords would thus have o large and
lucrative branch of their trade cut off. No
wonder, then, that they are more than ever
anxious to obtain cotton from the South, so
as to preyent the contemplated action of the
Indian merchants, Once that India manu-
factures her own cotton, in equal quality
with that of the Lancashire operatives,
England will have to lament over the great-
est blow to her mechanical industry.

REAR ADMIRAL 8. F. DUPONT.
~All great commanders must expect the
unthinking mass to feel aggrieved atgpey
check, however insignificant. Many,#too,
from various motives—some from personal
prejudices, others from secret infidelity to
the great cause now tasking all the energies
of our nation—will take adyantage of any
slight failure to cry down 8 gallant officer,
and thus assail the Government, Admiral
Duront, we regret to observe, bas been
thus assailed. We speak from personal
knowledge, when we pronounce him unsur-
passed for gallantry, enterprise, and skill,
and aided as he was by go wuny distin.
gished naya) officers on the decasion of the
Jate attack on Fort Sumpter, we know well
that he did all that could possibly have been
done under the cireumstances. We haye to
support these remarks the personal testi-
mony of our correspondent, who witnessed
the fight; and we are sure that, when the
Admiral's report is published, it will con-
firm and prove all we have been saying. In
the meanwhile, Iét us not forget the bril-
Jinncy of the Victory at Port Royal and the
hero ofthat engagement. 4

FROM WASHINGTON.

SPECIAL DESPATOMES 10 THE ‘“WAR PRESS. "”
Wasmroron, April 20, 1669.

‘Tho Hon. Ront. J. WALKER has gone to Enrope,
partly in behalf of the Quickellver Mining Com-
any, to assert its claim in a sult against Baron
Fonnes, who represeats the company now ia pos
ression of the mines. He also will act for the Go-
vernmient for thé purpose of effecting an arrange
ment to seoure uniform weights and measures of
coin, so as tobe equal in welght and fintnese be-
tween the United States and Great Britain, aad
thus equalize the exchanges for the convenience of
commerce, aa recommended in the annual report of
the Secretary of the Treasury. His businces is not,
as atated, on the subject of loans,

Mr. ASriNWALL's business in Europe, it is un-
derstgod, fe connected with the Navy Department,

‘The Navy Department haa received a letter from
Acting Admiral Lue, dated off Wilmington, April
18th, enclosing a report from Commodore Scott, of
United States steamer Maritanza, cear Cape Fear
mver, stating that, on the Sd instant, the United
States transport steamer Union hove in sight in
distress, and in the afternoon it was found necessary
toabandon and destroy her by fire to prevent her
rifting asbore to the rebels. ‘The officers and crew
were ali saved. She was bound from Hilton Head
te Beaufort, South Carolins.

HanvEY SHERMAN, onc of Col, BaKER’s detectives,
guerillas, aad was hung esrly on Saturday morning,

ville.

fever at that Institution has entirely disappeared,
and the eick Mist is emaller than during any previous
tenson.

VIRADQUARTERS OF THE ARMY OF THE
Potomac, April 20
The following orders were published to-day =

GENERAL ORDERS No. 4.

In order thnt no misunderstanding may exiet Aeto
the course to be pursued with regard to regiments
whoee term of servioo are about expiripg, the fol-
lowlog rules will govern the rection of corps com
mander and others io the matter :

. When companico and regimente reenilat
atter tho expiration of their present term of service,
in accerdance with the provisions of general order
No. $5, of April 2, 1863, {rom the War Department,
the regimental nod campany officers will be retsin=
ed; the regiment will have @ furlough for the time
ejcelhed in the onlere, and will he allowed to pro-
ceed xt the publle expengc, with thelr arms and
equipments, to the place of their enrollment, the
date of their furlough betog two yearsor nine months
(a3 tho case may be) from the date of the original
hiuster into the service of the United States.

‘zi, When the regiments ina body decline tore
int, the otticers and men will be mustered out at
the expiration of two years (or nine monthe) from
the date of their notual muster into the eervice of
the United States. ‘Their arms and equiprieate will
bo turned over to the ordnance officer of the divi-
sion to which tho troops belong, and transporta-
tloa and subalatenco to the place of their enrollment
Ue giveu by the quartermaster and subsistence de~
partments,

3d. In enees where lesa than one-half of the men
re-collat, the proportiga of officers to be, retained,
anil the g¢leotlon of thoee to be retained 1a cervice
willbe determived by the corps commanders in ac
cordance with the proviston of paragraph ¢hird of
xeoeral order No. 88, of April 2, 1863, from the War
Department. The ravk, proportion, and number
of ofticers to be retained with the regiments where
the reentistmente are partial Is left to the disere
ton of the corpa commande: *

4th. The portion of the bounty provided fa geaeral
onter No. 60, April 24, 186% from the War Depart
ment, for reenlistment, will be eatered upon the
musténtolle, to bepald At the fret payment after the
return of the men from their furlough.

6th, Io regiments where two-years men and men’
eolixted for three yeargor the war aro nseocinted |
together, epecisl recommendations may bo made to
the headquarters for furloughs to the latter, whea
the umber of two-years mea re-enlisting may, in
the oplatoa of the corps commanders, justify the ia
dulzence,

Gth, Where the two-years regiments do not r=
eplist, ns above provided for, the cnrps commandera
Will direct the travafer of men eolisted for three
years or the warin such rogimenta to three-year
Tegimente from the same State; or if thelr numbers
‘aro aufficient théee men may,’at the discretion of
the corps commandgr, be formed {nto battalions.

7th. Vuis onder, #8 well ng the following order from
the War Departaient, will be read at the head of each
company of the two yeare and nine months regi-
moat serving fo thie army,

By command of Major General Hooen.

S. WILLIAMS, Aaa't, Adj't, General.

Heanquanvers ARMY ov THE PoToMAc,
‘April 20, 1863,
Guwerdt ORDER, No, 43—It appearing, from the
report of commietions duly appointed, and from
Oillcial fnformation otherwise furotshed, that the
absence of tho fallowlog-pamed oflicera, annolinced,
for diamienal in genera) order No. 20, tesucd March
6, 1863, from there headquarters, canbe satistacto-!
rlly neooiiated for, they are bereby relieved from all
further lability under the provisions of that order:
Lieut J. M. Andrews, Jr. 30th New York ; Uapt.
Jacob Ex. Yates, 24 New York; Lieut. Colonel 1,
Shaul, Toth New York.
Capt. A. Sagor, 76th N. Y., honorably discharged.
Lieut, Hen}. B, Hapcock, 19th Indiana,
Col. L. Curler, 6th Wiscoosin.
Second Lieut. Martin Rodman, 24 Wisconsin,
Firat Lieut Gharles G. Esalinger, 24 Wisconsin,
honorably discharged.
Col. Alexnoder E. Donaldson, 20th New Jersey,
honorably dlechnnged,
Major Charles Ryan, 126th Penns.
Cave, We H. Jackson, 120th Mags., honorably dia
charged.
‘Capt. Sherman N. Aspinwall, 29th New York,
hopneable, dlecharged.
Lieut. H. B. Stewart, 149th Penna.
Lieut. Francls O, Duke, 24 Delaware, honorably
diecharged.
Major Benjamin Ricketts, 2d Delaware,
Major Peter Nelson, 60th New York.
Licut. Jacob Fisber, 68th New York, honorably
dirchanged.
geziculy Jobn Caslow, 28th Masrachueetta, mus
ered out.
Licut E. B, Rich, 19th Maine,

Reliable information wes received today, that
was captured on Friday, st midnight, by Noskpy’s
by his captors, io eight of bis family, near Drance-

Commodore BLAKE, superintendent of the Naval
Academy, writes to the Navy Hepartment that the

in W.
y discharged,

Anelstant Surgeon F. L. Haupt, ath Pennsylva-
nin, honorably discharged.

Lieut. Jamca Woodward, 6th New Jersey.
Cnptain Clarence D'Hesr, 13th New Yori, hono-
rably discharged

Captain Wm. Doweny, 13th New York.

Licct. Louis E. Crone, 224 Maesschusetta.
Liout. Wa. M. Cloney, 22d Massachusctts, mus
tered out.

Ohapiain O. FE, Welrea, 1th New York, honors-
Bly discharged.

Lieut. Wa. M. Edmons, 14th New York.

Lieut. E. W. Reed, 834 Pennsglvanis, honorably
lscharged.

Licut. Robert B. McKibbeny, 48th United Ststes
Infantry.

Atsistant Surgeon J. E. Smith, 12th United States
Infantry.

Captain T. W. Newman, lith United States In-
fantry.
As
vanin.
Lieut. J. A. Mellinger, 134th Pennsylyanin, hone
rably discharged,

Oaptain W. H. Eldridge, uth Now Jersey, hono-
rably discharged.
‘Osptsin H. W. White, 27th New York.

Captain, Burbank Spliler, 6th Matne, honorably
iarged.

‘Captain Angon S. Daggott, 6th Maine,

Fe rt Olcott, 12let New York.

Lieutenant Albert Webber, 20th New York, ho

norably diecharged.

Osptain R. W. Oliver, 824 Pennsylvania.
Osptain John Ashisnd, 82d Pennsylvania.
Liouteoant Arthur B, Keen, 234 Penoaylvania.
Lieutenant Richard Carter, 6th Wisconsin.
Lieutenaot Samuel Aechur, 6ith New Yori.
Captain A. B. Botsford, 79th New York
‘Asslatant: Surgeon J. H. Hassenplug, llth Penna,
Lieutenant Bayard Will 1, 4th U. 8. Artillery.
2d. The commanding general takes this occasion
to censure in the strongest terms the inexcusable
conduct of all those through whose negligence or in-
difference in not forwarding the proper Information
to these headquarters, officers, who had been honor-
Shy discharged for wounds received in battle, or

‘ness induced by camp exposure, or who had Jain
down their lives in the service of thelr country, or
whore abeence from their duties in the field was
justitied by the orders they had received, had been
held up to public remark, and reproved, ne '* abeent.
without leave.” The records of some of the regi-
menta com to have been kept ins manner htetly
discreditable to the commanding and staff officers
charged with the important and responsible duty of
collecting and arranging the data which make up.
‘the military history of the ihdividuala composing
thelr respective commands. When this trust is
neglected, the reputation and rights of offcers and
men inust necessarily be endangered.

By command of Major General Hooker,

S. WILLIAMS, A. A. G.

The following telegram was recelved at the oflca
of the Provost Marshal of the War Department laat
night
To Colonel L. C. Baker
Fameax Counr House, April 17.
I have to inform you that Harvey Siren
about ten

ie Moore, 12th Now Jersey, honors-

ant Surgeon L. W. Coff, 124th Pennoyl-

sir
SAN was captured Inst night at hie hous
o'clock, by nine of Mosny’s men.
SPAULING, Scout.

Another despatch was received this forenoon cons
firming the above; also a note addressed to Colonel
BAKER, from Simnwan's wife.

A telegram from General Stanx etates that he
had aent forward n cavalry foree to intercept the
captors of SinziOt AX.

‘The report hns reached the city that Suzewaw
was executed this morning at daylight, Itis brought
by A Seceznion woman, who saya ahe witnessed the
execntion.

Suen an had been captured once before, at Lees-
burg, and received a shot in the arm from hie pur
suers, He was released on parole, and when seized
was ona vielt to hia family.

Oficial Information haa been received of the cap-
ture, on the 17th inet,, of the rebel Gen. Prenom’s
chief of staff. The capture was made on the Nanse-
mond river, by Lieut. Cusura, of the Commodore
Barney.

AntHur O, Kext, orderly sergeant of the Old Do-
minion Riffes, of Alexandris, s Confederate soldier,
was recently captured near Acquis Creek, and on
‘Thursday was brought to Washington.

A distinguished Greek cavalry officer, General
Yrsiano, formerly chief of cavalry in the military
zervice of Greece, has arrived here for the purpose
of tendering his services to ourGovernment. He
brings a letter from Mr. ADAMS, our minister to
England, to the Sccretary of War, strongly recom-
mending him to the favor of the Government.

-The Navy Department has received ofljeial infor-
mation of the following captures:

‘The D, Sargeant, from Galveston, bound to Hondu-
tea, on the 6th, with fifty-one bales of cotton, The
capture was made by the United States gunboat
Kittanning, off Galveston bar.

‘The T. Capps, on the 26h of March, by the
‘boats ofthe United States ehip Cayne, in the harbor
of San Francisco, while esting under suspicious
circumstances showing that che was desigued to
preg upon our commerce. ‘

The sloop Ranger, of Clays Landing, Suwannee
river, by the Fort Henry's armed~bosts, off Chris-
tal river. Her cargo consisted of salt, drs-goods,
gunpowder, &.

Also, the echooner Anna, of Nassau, N, P., while
endeavoring toevade the blockade off the mouth of
the Suwannee civer, with an assorted cargo.

It appeara fcom the information received at the
Navy Department, that the extent of sicknes
among the midehipmen on ‘board the practice-sbip
Constitution, st Newport, RI., has been much ex-
aggerated, The few psticnta are to be landed and
placed in the hospital at the Academy.

ARMY OF THE POTOMAC.

GEN, STONEMAN’S MOVEMENTS.

New Yorx, April 29—The Post has a report (rom
an officer wh eft the Army of the Potomac pn Sa-
turday, to the efect that Gen. Stoneman wa heant
from on Saturday afternoon; that he reached Culp
per ©. H., where 3,000 rebele were surprised and cap.
tured; algo, that a number of Harris! Light Cavalry:
were killed in a previous ekirmisb. The story. is
doubtful.

THE REBEL ACCOUNTS.

The following are extracts from the Richmond
Prquirer of Thursday

THOM FREDERICKSHURG,
[Sreelal Despatch to the Richtaond Bogusrer )

Frupenicxenoeo, April 15.—Heavy firing waa
heard up the river yeaterday, which Was eupposed
to be ekirmisbiog shout Kelly's Ford, between
Stuart's cavalry and those of the Yankees, ‘The
cavalry pickets have all been withdrawn from Port
Royal toa point up the river within six milles of
tows. Last night large fires, ae of 8 conilagration,
were visible in the direction of Acquila Creek. TW0
Dalloone were up seaterday, and the cars ave been
running incessantly since’ Saturday plght. Toast
evening there was « good deal ofcommotion in front,
and the algnala were unusually active.

THE FIGHT ON THE UPPER RAPPA-
HANNOOK.

Rallway fatelhgeaes makes out the Bght on the
Raprnhannock on Tietday, a(BKcelley'a Ford, fo
which the enemy were repuleed after five successive
Attempts to cross, with some loss, extent not known,
but slight on the Oonfederate side. On the same
day, 8 demonstration was made near Germann and
U.S. Ford, but no engagement ia reported. It was
believed that Hooker Intended a general advance,
but all remaiolog quiet on yeaterday, this Impres=
sion abated. A report wae io circulation, based upon,
the etatement of a clvilian from Frederickaburg,
that-a general advance was projected by the enemy,
Dut that A InrRe body of the troops whore term of
service expirea between the Ist and sth of May, re
fused to obey orders, believing that It was the
object of the Comulsnderin-Ohief to force them
{nto a fight of desperation before the efficiency of the
army should be impaired by emergencies which
would arlae during that period,

DEPARTMENT OF VIRGINIA,

Fortress Mowroe, April 19.—Last evening the
steamer Freeborn arrived from Charleston, bringing
no news of importance. The monitohs were all
lying near the bar, none of them having left, a3 has
been reported.

Cannonading was distinctly heard Jast night, and
moat of the time to-day, on the Nansemond river,
where our gunboats are engaged in shelling out
squads of rebele who are attempting to plant batte-
rea upon the banks of the river. Thus far they
baye been defeated,

General Dix had staff left this morning, on the
Henry’ Burden, for the Nansemond, The general
returned late last evening from Suffolk. He keeps
avigilant eye upon the enemy's movements about
‘thie department,

Fortaess Mownnor, April 20.—Heavy firing has
been going on for the last twenty-four hours on the
Nansemond river, occasioned by our gunboats
whelling out the rebels, who are attempting to plant
batteries at different points on the river.

Last night our gunboats, with the 68th New York
and 8th Connecticut Regiments, captured a rebel
battery of aix pieces of artillery, together with two
hundred prisoners, taken from the 4ith Alabama
Regiment.

OFFICIAL DESPATOH FROM GEN: PEOK,
Wasntnaton, April 20.—An official despatch has
deen received from Major General Peck, dated clght
o'clock Jast evening, which says
“General Getty, fn conjunction with the gun-
boats under Lieutenant Lasmon, has juat stormed
the heavy battery at the weat branch, and captured
six guns and two hundred of the 44th Alabsma Re-
gineat They crossed in boats. The sth New

‘ork snd Sth -Connecticut Regiments were the
storming party.?

THE MISSISSIPPI SQUADRON.

Miserssirri Savapnox,
‘Hutewa, Arkansas, April 11, 1863,
(Special Corrospondance of The Pross.1
Tt is now too Iate for me to give you tn detail the
events of the Yazoo Pass Expedition, or more pro-
perly apeaking, of the two expeditions, and the be.
role and noble Sights of the United States gunboat
Chillicothe, which alone and unsustained by the
army fought Fort Greenwood threo several timer,
receiving fifty-nine terrifié shots, and having in
killed and wounded, out of a crew of less than sixty,
twenty-two killed and wounded.

The expedition ia not a failure by any means, but
it would have been a perfest success bat for the need-
eas, yea, criminal delays of the army officera nt He
lens {n fitting out transporte for the troops, and for
the delay, after the expedition got through the Pasa
into Cold’ Water river, of Lieutenant Commander
Watson Smith.

Genernl Rose, of the army, and the commanders
of the Chillicothe and Baron De Kalb would have
achieved a fame such as the war has not produced,
but for the delaya of their superiors, or but for their
Jealousy.

The expedition ie ao far a great succeas in thie, tnat
ithas entirely destroyed all prospects for crops of
‘any kind on the Yazoo Pass, on the Cold Water, and
on'the Tallahatchic. In addition to the above very
important item, all the cotton, cotton-gina, planta-
tlon houees, and negro quartera, all the corn and all
the cattle, and all of the fences on there atreams, were
utterly deatroyed; bealdea the rebel loss in kUled and
wounded and in prisonere, and from desertion was
very connlderable. Their greatest Joss, however,
was in the very large amount of cotton thoy destroy~
ed to keep us from getting it, and the loss of a great
number of their negroes, who were brought out an«
dor the provisions of the President’s proclamation,
and inthe complete demoralization of what were
left. A portion of the egroca that the Yazoo Paso
Expedition caused to leave their mastera, are now
being drilled at this point as Federal soldiers.

‘The breaking of the levees In getting into the Paes
will destroy all the country adjacent to our route,
and will render the whole upper portion of tho State
‘of Mineieslppi no ickly, that it will be Impossible
for thelr armies to remain in the localies we have
just visited, The eamo may be eaid of all the Lake
Providence country and that of Vicksburg, nnd, in
fact, of all the States on the Missleainp{ river—for
the levees are broken from Memphbia to New Orleans,
and cannot soon be repaired, for the pegrocs won't
work, and Southern chivalry have to fight not only
the Yankcee, but starvation.

‘There is a movement on the tapis to-day that in-
dieatea a complete concentration of all the troops,
from Memphis down, on the City of Hilla, aa the
rebels poctically style Vicksburg. If, as I supposes
Twill hot go wanting for material to keep up my
correspondence.

T think wo will atrike this time by the way of Laice
Jence—and, should we fail again, we beg to
sof our fricads the anecdote of Brace

and the epid
ARMY OF THE MISSISSIPPI.

Onxerx att, April 20,—¥ou many look for import-
ant news from Vicksburg about this time, aud T
think {t will be nothing Icas than that the passage of
the river batteries by the upper fleet has beea ac
complished with transports nnd an assault by 70,000
men by the way of Warrenton. Part of the boats
forming the Yazoo expedition have arrived at Mem-
phis, The damage has been appraised as follows :
The John Bell, $1,453; the Key West, $2,225; the
Mariner, $2,600; the Tecumseh, $5,500.

NEGRO SOLDIERS IN ARKANSAS,

GixcixsAtt, April 20—The let African Regiment
at Helena is nearly full. The negroes manifest
much enthusiasm, and geome of them are very proud
of the service of aoldiers In our army. |

GEN. THOMAS! PLAN FOR THE EMPLOY-
MENT OF COLORED TROOPS IN THE
SOUTHWEST.

Catno, April 20.—Below will be found General
‘Thomas’ plan for employing negroes on abandoned
plantations, He eays he wiobes it had been done a
month estlicr, then the success would have been
complete, but even yet much may be done

First. The Government of the United States, in
order to secure the safety of commerce and naviga-
tion on the Mississippi, have determined to locate
onornear ite beach a loyal population, who will

rotect, Instead of destroying, aa is now done, the
freedom of commercial intercourse on this great in~
tnod res, That thie pollcy may the more speedily
receive ita initiation, George B. ‘Field, Captain A.
E,Shickle, and “Kev. D. S. Livermore are hereby
‘appointed commieatonors, whose duty It shall be to
superintend the letting of plantations to persond of
proper character and qualiticationa, and to sce that
the mutual obligations between the negroes and
their employers or superintendents, ehall be faith
fully performed ; to attend in come meaeure to their
moral and Intellectual wants, and generslly to carry
out the policy of the Government regarding acgroea
that are to be put to agricultural puraults.

‘Second, It being deemed the beat polly as far os
possible to mak the employment, sod sutaistence
of negroes A matter to be left to private enterprise,
plantations will be placed {n posseesion of auch per
S006 as commissioners shall deem of good character,
god pecuntary responsibility, and in Meu of rent &
tax will be collected upon the product of the land,
payable to such agents aa the Treasury Depactment
ball deaignate, eato being taken to secure, as far 8S
possible, the just rightsof employce and employed,
And in allcaees the negroea will ba furnished with
enough clothing for comfort in advance of their
earnings, in consequence of their extreme destitu-
tion, and in nocaae will negroes be subject to corpo-
ral punishment by fhe lash or other cruel and uau-
aual modes.

Third. Upon the occupaneyof plantations ioapect-
ora will vialt each plaatatiog ani take sn inventory
of all the property upon the estate. Crops yet un

athered will be turned over to be gathered by the
jeaaee. upon such terms as shall eccure to the Go

Verament its falr share, while all movable property,

stock, grain, &c., will be taken posscasion of by the

Government or gold to the lesnee, if he so desires, at

thetr appraised value, payable out of the proceeds of

the plantation in the [all. ‘The appratuera to be sp
polnted by the commlarioners, unlees otherviee de-
signated by the Government.

Fourth. After the lessee ahall have taken posse
sion of the plantation, as many negroes of average
quality aa he may deatre aball be turned over to him
upon the order of the commlesioners, the leatee eu-
tering jato bonds to employ them until the first of
February, 1564, and to feed, clothe, and treat bu-
manely, sil tho) negroes thus turned over, the cloth-
ing to be deducted from thelr wages, and tobe fur
nished atcost.

Fifth. Tf itehall be found impracticable Ja conse
quence of the lateness of the season to find persong
of sulticlent character-and reaponsibliity to give em
Ployment to all the negroes coming within the linea
of the army, the commicsioncre may appoint superio
tendente under whose eupervision the soll may be
cultivated for the exclusive use of the Government,
or may have the plantations worked upon. such
terma as in their judgment shall be best adapted to
the weltare of the negroes, taking care that In all
Plana adopted the negroes shall beself-sustalning
and not become a charge upen the Government

Sixth. ‘The wages pald for Inbor shall be na fol-
lowa: For able-bodied men, over fifteen years of
age, seven dollars per month: forable-bodled women,
oNer, nlteen years of age, five dollara per, wonth ;

n, hetw

ets cen the ages of twelve and dftees,
Children under twelye yenra of age shail not be

used na eld hands, and famniiles tauet be kept tom
gether when they so Wesire. ‘The tax on the products
of the plantation in Heu of rent shall be nt the rate
of two dollars per bale of 400 pounda of cotton, and
five cents per bushel on corn and potatoes.

Seventh, Whilst military protection will note
guarantied for the safety of persona engaged in cul
tivating the soll, yet all troops will be required to
Elve protection where it,can be done without tajary
to tho service, and {t le éonfidently beloved that the
military organizations of the negtocs Will alford all
the protection necessary.

Eighth. Commanders of the army will render tbe
commissioners such military aealstance as may be
necessary, without Injury to the service, forthe exe-
cutlon of ‘thelr duties." The commissioners wil
report their proceedings to the Secretary,
every two weeks, * rs

Given under my hand at Milliken’s Bend, La.
‘April 16, 1863, by authority of instructions eed
Sceretaty of ‘War. L. THOMAS,

Adjutant Geseral.

FROM NORTH CAROLINA.

New Youk, April 19.—The Herald has the follow=
Ing news:

A letter from Moorehead City announces that
Gen, Foster has succeeded in passing the rebel
blockade in the steamer Escort, with the loss of the
pilot killed and several wounded. The Escort was
riddled by about forty shots. Gen. Foster arrived
at Newbern on the night of the 16th, and was joy
fully received. j

Gen. Nagle ja in Newbern. z.
Gen. Heckman Would go from Moorehead City
to Newbern with the Massachusetta 234 and New
Jereey 9th.

Monemzan City, N. O., April 16-2 P, M.—Tho
Newbern train ia just in, and brings Intelligence
that General Foster had succeeded in passing tho
rebel blockade in the steamer Escort, with the losa
of the pilot killed and several wounded, The Escort
was riddled by at least forty shot.

General Foster arrived in Nowbern last night,
and was joyfully received. His force in Washing
ton, N. O,, ia still there, General Nagice is 10
Newbern.

General Heckman will proceed Immediately in
special train to Newbern. The Massachusetts 234
and the Sth New Jersey go with him. Communics-
Mons with New York from Newbera, via Hatteras
Inlet, are still openy

FORNEYS WAR PRESS.—PHILADELPHIA, SATURDAY, APRIL 25, 1863.)

5

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EUROPE.

SIRE DATS SEIZURES BY FEDBRAU ORUIZERS.
IMPORTANT LETTER FROM KARL NUESELL
Fouriax Oprick, April S. 1850 4
Grm- Tam now directed by Bacl Huesell to make yon.
acquainted with tho conclusion ac which, having con
{Ferwhiis. communication with he law offlacrs of thy
Craw, your letter of he 25th of March, Teagesting to Bo
{Miormed in regard fo the rlghtct Britlsh veasols to tender
Fite Mlatnmocos, ber Majesty'c Government hive at
Hy

0 tof the United 8 bas clearly no
Habtigseive Dritith vessels band gfe bound from ti
Tight to ter trom aby. otter Dritiah posession, to the

porteot Vera Grorand Matamoros, or eltler of them, or
Pre cersa, unless eack vesnols-aitempt to (ouch al, ox
Fave an_immediato or contingeat destination to, same:
Blockadedl port of place, or are earriors of contraband of
War deetined for tho Confederato States; aod In any go
Jnitted eure of such ablawfal captore, ber Majerty's Bos
Ferment would feel it thelr daty promptly to luterf-re,
Wiha view to oblalp the Iemmetiato rostitatlou of thd
Ship and-sargo, With full compensation, aud witout th
Belay of proveedinis ia a prise court. {
Hor Malssty's Goverument, bowever, cannot, without
violating toe rules of foteruntiopal lave, claim for British
Jestelecaaviknting betweea -Groat Britnin’ and Were
Places soy Kenern exempuon trom tho belligereat rigat
Srvisuation by the ernisers of tho United States got eam
they peoeced upon way geonral assumption that Ruch
‘Sesrelt may not ro act ae to nendor thelr capture Laerial
Gnd jusuable, “Nothing is more comaiou than for (hoes,
rho costemplato a breach of bloeeade, or the earrlayte of
Soutraband,todisiuite thelr parpose by a elmulnted dealle
Batlon a53) by deceptive naperes and the situation af tho
ports onthe coastof Moxieo,W ith ralerouce (a Use Confeda.
Talo Slates, Iesnch ds to make IwoCouly posalble, bat ia
Binoy cares Hobable, that aa ustensible Mexical deatls
pationvoald bo resorted (o aga cover for objects which’
svould-really justify capture. [taka alreaily happetid
Tovmagy cares, that firltieh vesnels havo licen nolan
while eoraged In Voyages apparently lawful, which!
Vessels bave aerwards beeo proved 1a the prize caurts
to bave been really guilty of epceavoriug to break tbe
+ blockade, oF of catrylog contraband to the Confede-,

rates,

Ita the right of tho belligerent to captare all veeeole,
reasonably euspected of wither of these trankcressloue of
interoations| law,\nd wheasver any such ease of eon:
Coro in alleged, the caso cannot bo Withdraws ftom tao!
consideration Of the priza court of the captor. After tbe
care basondergono Investigation, It's the duly of the
privo court to restore Ay woe peices unlawfully made,
Gilh costs and damsces. aad tho propor me for the
Jotorftrenen of her Majesty's Goveram-nt ls, In qu:
seral, thoa the prize courts hava refused redress (ore
gapltite-avhich tho evideneo shuwe co have bee anjestl-
iablo.

Her Majosy'r Government eanna?, upon ex-parte rtets-|
ments, deay the bellicerents 1o dla Wat tho axerelaa af
thoen rights which, Ia all wate in wieh Great britala
Bes beso copcormedysho has Aaiged oreo io exerelsa,

Tam, Hr, your Biost obedient humble servant
E HAMMOND.
ET. Gouuar, Esq., No. 3 Leudeabnil atrest.
LORD PALMERSTON ON NEUTRALITY
WE PROMISES NON-INTERYEATION |POR TIMAELP xD
“ioPhs 17 PROM THE DERELITES.
aight Palmerston alluded to tho American, question:
nF
a

ine Fexan wali putehdng the lance, too
< kh Y made t turn fercer and tei
fo" tisslon sof anes are deeply-ca-
ited “nthe couteet nh tbiy ary cayasedew boa
{ovis opposed! foe, aud on toe potat ol-strikion bis ua
iggeasiee auyiftiend who Juterposce tracd ouly. fare the

Seat for iit Iotorpasition, bat would, uot overt tbe
Tow! lotwlled jby the. one neninnt the otter. sbini
the people or the, United “Kisgdum have judued that
{siPecvermment has deteraslard rightly 1a not witenipe
ing Wetervueou, “A great aud tnt celoablo part of
BE opulation nie bees sdcring deep daisere.” That
Giifeus bas bool lees, perhues, sitions yon to. Seotlaad
fbau in tbe distriow douthy bntaven boréla Gluskaw aud
fe'uther placescat misery hes been experienced by the
Ereetled ofthe tage of the stead safe of Oar induse
foe Uat ar wo led auempted by Torelols means to
brlce over thar supply which, uwing th the cvatest, hae
Beeo Withield rom us 1am ‘couvinged that instead

ofadimloleling the reesure, We ehoeld bave Increased
fi\cand wuould. very iach bavo lncrased tht evil
Which we intended (alleviate, aa result

the ecantry Would hate blimed
Bo for baving taken-a Wroug slew, and haying nd
2 polley” ilrsuited” 10" tho eireumstaners
sulltuat tis ealamitoas war may soon have 3
Teannot bot tiok, rhen tbo passions which exit
(ost war bave bad thelr veat—and all passione muh t hive
{hele vent kad hieg the respite of hut war shall poets
biore abd more heavily upou both. partice vusaaed fe it,
that without laverveatlon, which they world resaal akan
adroni, thelr cwa good suse aud thelr own proper feel
Inge may Icad them to pexce(al totentions, aud that ar-
¢ to mado whlch will put ao ond to tbat

dresdiul bloodshed und tbat wide-siread desolation of
Gbleb the American contizent bas wow for nearly two
Sears been tho scene Gestlemen, [cag only mesure you
Giatiho polley whted we, the preceut Uoveroment, pare
ene ls fonuded pou our bellet thut we alo the faltofal
‘exhooeats of thu fenllage end eontimente of tho Bogiisn
People, 1 believe, and. all Indicatlouy bave cout med
Ueroavieuon, at iw tbat sudement we ro BOL mis-
taken, “(Cheors.} Aad Jwill tay thiny apeaking ex 1
But to (oak arrembly not campored entirely of 1seg of
Sno politieal party—f will sey is tho spirit of an bi
Tehsoua~(ebeors)—ibat Lam convinced tbat If elregai-
ftances should lead toa change in (bore who aduninitter
the wiaire of the countey, aud that Ifthe wen who BOW
aitopgosite to as, nad are pulllically our eutazonitts,
though not pertonally our enemles—(ebeer]—should
Lake tbe places which we Bow eccary, they would, botb
from thelr pereonal feeling. bat, auove tha all, by tha
electane pressure of Publigeplniaa In thle country, par-
$002 coarse much thesaindas that whieb we ou

rie, {Cheers} lay it not (o thelr diaparageiaeat,

et ta thelr honor, for I hope, and trust, and believa
hat the bonor and interest of the coantry would be nave
In their baads I do not at the newe time, toll yom
thatl look forward with apy great or partiealar {ia-
Falenen to Wie moment whew hoy. wil’ Us pot toch

thes

hich, I (raat, would uot
& 1g reat, would not pavere trial
THE DECLINE IN THE REBEL COTTON LOAN.
{From the London Times. )

In thoforvign markst there has again been great ac:
uvitye and fo moet Iastanceg ua Lsproveneac Tse
Elatedernta Ioan, “however, baw been ap exception,
The price to the mozeloy wes m discount to pat: bet ta
the afisraoon & Toriher fall occurred, whica. eas ioe
creaud yoreat the cluso Ova Wlegram uenouacieg (Be
Stoppagt of Mr. dB. Speuee, of Liverpool, ig tbe prvva
tinue Acreport was immediately circulated that thie
tes Sr" pence, the Copfederais nancial agent, aud
the serip of the foan flually Weal to 2% to lis ofsenunt,
The Cobiedcrate Boepelat Agent, however, ter Semmes
Grrace, aed elthounb, he in ear eluted fo Me. 3B.
Spence: thera buwaee been, fis eacds the slightest bat:
Brus eybucetion betwere them.” suiben the expporsers
Of ibe Ioan it was etated ate large pomber of tpecule®
ther sclow were cxiected (0 day in order that tbo Cuawed
Htsmer om starday may curry out sdeeme prices
Rottiog appears to have tanepived politiclly to alter
Reposition or broemets, aod ie Ie wchty tee Cotton, pss

‘Ore throaft oot the Kingdom Ghee tbo {ark of detar~
fafng tp value mace etiitrere: Uniorsnaately, cue ta,
malt ofthis condition ls, that the epecolarloa in thw Lou
‘en markos nscumes the cinsnqesr of thas willoh is moet
congenial at Liverrod!,

(From the Daily News}

‘The serip of the vew Confederate loan was ngnin very
heavy to-day, and gradually. declined, eloriaw at 24; to
2ulecount, Some of the ealos wero raid t> bo atteibata-
Ble to an impression that Mr. Joba B, Spence, merehaut
Of Liverpool, who hax jost siovped payment. Is ideuth

_ fed with the'Snancist ugent, of tho Confederate Cavers.
meal. This, however. te oot the case. str, Joba B.
Spence, who has teen Gficen yearn In busioces and is

well known, isa brother of Mr. James Spence, tho Con-
federate agent, but Is eutirely noconpected with blm in
business,

(From the Star.)

‘The Confederate cotton loan, tho objeet of which Isto
fetunguey bere, to ray for the sar ships now balling,

a \iclating of Ist, Iu our ports for the Southern Con:

federacy, aod which, when launched g fortaight alae, |

suddenly obtateed #0 mach faver 4 to riko 10 8 i

slum of five per cent , bas already exparieneed a rlenal
reverts of forluve Aw the rott-n oature ot the recarity

‘etered by the Confederate Gaveroment cuine to be bet”
ter Koown, aod thy ecandalously ilecal porposes to
Which tbe moucy wan to beapplies in England wore ex

Fored, peepla weho at ret were hoowbtl se1) allored

tho arparcutly splendid profi offered, took the nian
and the conscyuecen fs, that the Confrderay: lonn le uow
dealt with on ont Stock Exensoge nt maiecanat of two

Fe ceokgned, maulterty all (hee: mptome uf m comin.

dity rapidly #inkiog out of poblic favor
INSURRECTION AS A WEAPON OF WAR

(From Rorrell’s London Army und Navy Gatetto.)
‘There isn jourpal in thls metropolis which Is the re

poted orcan of theConfédorata Btates, Atall aveutey the

Faper bas decided Southern prreitvition. In tho Test

Kumber it Is asserted (bat evvillzed nations will think

death by powder and ball "Ix too resneetanle for men

Fullly of da attempt toioelte ao loterior race to. lusue

Feetloo,” Pho allusion arises from a report that Federal

oficers of a certain begrareximeat which Ineniil to have

Been taken iu Florida, bed bon tentenced to be shot

This passage ie one of ‘many proofs, that the Americar

caupdt comprebued the feelugs of this coaatry—it may
be of any other—reggrding the war.” Tho aprining of
fyortion ofaa rurtay's wabjerts, Infuelor or ayer

race, In desirable object tovetlcct—Ik iw quite @ levi
mmsie operation of war. If Great Brivala were engacs

Ina warwith Franco, aotbing sould be more natural

than for nur enemy to excite Hindoo, Mussalmau, oF

“Arab(o revolt. No rale of warfaro woold permit us 0

ireat officers engaued in toat service otbucwiee than ae
then conducting © legitimate poration. [ewe becessary
evilofa war, In whlch eer ‘ile Jusurrection nay bo 1u-

Vobed by np ‘iuvader, {0 increacn tho ordinary borrors

And calstaities of bostilo secnpation. Wheu somo years

Bro Sovthern tatesmen, Insolent and avaressive, threut-

ened thls country with war, It War remarked over and
over again, 1 British jourpils, that (bo despatch of
fome of our West Indian regiments to Loalstana or the

Carolinas might be of on9 of tho wost G rinidableagencles

Ih Which ovon opr vast belligon at power conld resort

Onr Southern frends most carry thy wholn welzht of

slavery oa thelr abouiders, tp po oo or fa war.” Servile

{oturriction would be a dreadful evil. Itwould bea

repelicion of the Indiua revolt of 1897. Au iuferior race

Would rise acalust thelr wiatore, But it tn ao Eceldent

Anda contingent of any war, in which a Rlato of sluve-

holder euxages. Tho oflicers who develop It wre aa trea
from any nevat vengeance or ro'aliatinn Gs thos who

Sight on the decks of tholr ships or in tho lines of (hele

regiugents

OUR MONITORS AT CHARLESTON.

OPINIONS OF CAPTAIN ERICSSON,
To the Editor of The Press:

‘Sin : I feel called upon to state, for the informn-
tion of the country, that the imperfections of the
Monitore, shown by Admiral Dupont's trial of their
strength at Charleston, are not of a serious character.
‘What has happened will be Teadlly obviated foF tho
future, Everything connected with our new fight-
ipg machines worked prociecly as Jotended—pot a
single chan gs. of piaas being called for, The pilot-
‘house proving of insufficient thickness was not an
unforeseen circumetance. The limited experience
which we bave had in actual conflict indicated that
eight inches thickness would be eufcient, but it)
by no means assumed to bo a rettled point.
Henco auch s construction waa adopted that,
without. removing the structure or changlog
ite interior arrangements, any oumber. of ‘nddt
‘onal plates might be attached to the exterior and ite
thicknees inerenaed to any extent. So with regard to
‘the turret ; It s constructed of ap interior ekeleton
cylinder comporéd of plates firmly riveted together,
to which apy number of platea mny be bolted. [tia
by no means xet establiabed (hat our turrete require
increased thickness, excepting. possibly, at the base,
‘The public will do well not to be alarmed by the re~
marke of inexperienced observers who are startled
to see the indentations produced by the cormy's pro
jectiles. We apply armor 10 keep out hostile shot,
not to prevent ecara and Indentatione. So far we
have fully succeeded, It will be proper to observe
that the euppored liwperfect steering qualities are
btterly groundices. There Jeno class of vessels In

would have been

‘squlpoiae rudder employed is acted upon by the
Powerful current {rom the propeller with such. tree
4s lo ebnoge the couree of the vessel with the
Alightest motion of the helm. In strong curcents
4nd shallow water, ae fo Obnrleston harbor, no
vessel can be readily mantavred,

Admiral Dupont’s preliminary attack on Oberler
ton—tho first practical teat of tron-clads—muat be
regarded as the moat important event in naval ble
fory. To this ceuntry the gallant aasault on Sumpr
tor by the new and untried verscls, exposed to the
Aerrible Nanking and 'raking Gre of numeroucother
forte, ie fraught with incaloulable benedt, What-
-ever'may be the alterlor object of Government, the
substantial advantace has already been secured of
Anowsog exactly whot the iron-clada can endure,
‘and what rematan'to be Woae to render the new aye:
tem perfect, It was high time that a practical teat
was instituted, alnce we are building a more nume
roue tron-clad ‘foot than. posreseed by all Europe.
‘The oation may thank the commanders of tho Moni:
tora for the knowledge gained through their gallan-
try. With leas daring on-thelr part, the Navy De
partment would yet lack. come information nece:
ry to direct the completion of the Swmpregoablo ticet
How building. At the same time, the apirited at-
tack on Sumipter and the havoo made during half
an hour's contest, warns! the Confederate lenders
that they must kecp their gumerous battertes fully
manned, and that they murt ot fora moment elack-
en their vigilanoe with Depont and hie Monitors
in with half a day?s eal.

‘The history of war may be scarohed (a vain for
‘an instance of eush coatly preparations, kept up at
such vaet oxpenditure, ae Charleaton now requires,
to wanl off the blow from bolf a dozen small vessclo,
| -Ranped, provisioned, and conled, at lees ocet than
‘a0 ordinary first-class ecrew ship.

‘Yours. very zeapectfulh

J. ERIOSSON.
New Yorn, April 14, 1889.
STATE APPROPRIATION BILL.

The following aro tho {tems of the general anrroprla:
sien bill pacsed by the Penueylvauia. Lexisiaure, 40d

approved by'the Governor:
Governor's FAlaryenro-0.: 64.00) 0
fecrotary of Commonwealth 1.700
UWeputy Secretary of Commonwealth 1.409
Araltr Generals. Bit
yBurveyer Goneralyensvress~ = sen
"Attorney Geuerabs. S00 0
Sbiile Treaaretycvecccc wcrc: 11.20 00
superlatendent Commun School Aye co
Bite, TAMPA M cence secs see 0
Spporintendent Publio Priaton. 50 00

Govern t's Secrotary-»~
iBxacutlyo Myssonger-
Chiat Clork Secretary:
Military do.
Commission Clerk Secratary Commonwealth,
Trauseribing do. uk ‘io.

‘De. do.
bo,

Messonor Sta'e Department... crn
‘Auistvnt Mossengor State Department...
Vortags—tolegraphs do, do.
Blapicbooke do, do.
gistoaery do: do
Focl<cdfights | de 40.
Miscellaneous a do.

Hopsitins: Esceative usie-chambgr.
Sageanion otles ra oe cama rs
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Warrant Clerk 40 rn 1000,
do do. 1,00
ao do 208
Mervager do £00
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Distributing Bebool Reporty-
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Now Dixesoat Hospital... x

‘Do, do. Tor officers bal ®
Stato Lunatic Asylam at Harelebargen.. ara
Do. do, do. for inanrages of bal x

FerneyIvania Trainiug Scloul for Pogble: mud,
‘4d Childera, Media. aa
Phila. School of Design for Women (ta be de-
dacted {rom Phil delpbis getiool !ued).
Sapport of common echonk Be
State Normal School at Lage
Ealary ollicers Enstern Penitentiary...
Bepaire to do. do. ct
For disebatged coaviets (5 aud #10 eaeb)..
For pure water for peulleaUary-
For manufacturing gus (or errido:
For boakn for COUVICLs. cere vsese
kalary officers Western Poulteatiar
Por dlsaberged conviets (#5 ané $10 ca
Booka for do, a.
Honea of Kefage in Philadelphia.
Hoare of Refoce in Allegheny.
Peusioos aod gratuities,
For watar for State Capitol

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Supariptendout of Pablie Holding” ($22 per
ett) .eveeess repro 3

Hepalring Governor's bans,
Kepairet tate Arsenal, Morrivburg:
po. pablle groaodmssiissesastie
George Borguer (Legislative Bacord), 87 per
fr) Presa Serer
Geocko Borgast, index to rane.
Earh fra company of Harrisburg:
‘Trameeribing for committees:
Ghiut clorke and s)x llores.
"*" aoco sfler elove at -cxslon,
Ghiof clerks—twleeailameaus...+~-
Win. H. Huddlesou—ealaiy tracee
Samoel Taylor, do
Satanel 4. Maxolro,
Pastors aud fylders..y

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xtra to olhicers of Benaia'n
Do paves do do
Do women to clean.

Win P, Brady.

John A, final 22 100 09
Byeclut Committocs, caen mower wud 10 cents
BHRE BULGE Seas esse ae ieee ste case + $600
Hxpencea Goveruor t Weehioxton eae FS
Ravenue Commissioners, Dies?
Avsintaat Librarian (xt) vo @
Do 40 tte por dl ne
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Morey Hospital of Alietbeny +++ 6,000 00
Laneaster Ubildren's Bomevss, sess 200 00
Jewleh Porter Homo (Pulla,)...0-- 7,400 09
Boy. J. W. Davis, servicos 1600)
Poan Widows: Any 00
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Glerle Senatorial ¢om
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Wituers feos ia 2
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"U.S Trust Company Invostigation,
Sarnoel Carson, sergeant-at-ams

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SASSSVLSBSSSS: S58: 8 Ss:

PHILADELPHIA AND Ricamonp Prices
Couranen.—The following table will exhibit the
Averaco prices of every dav articles of consumption
in Richmond and other rv bel cities ; aleo, the prices
patd for the samo articles Jn our own clty

Richmond, Piladetphia.

Para (ite ae
Beak eS ey
Buvar (oy) 1 Heay26
wae
eM ers
ee an Ey
Gheek Ginebaaas. eayde vo
iboek Gin a sie-ay
oc ee eC
Pati usr metas cnn Smard awe
Fave aera ae
Eni paged Baw
Blkek’and white wan: -: 4 6 3a of
ag aya i
44a yd
Sapir Srearso
: Sata diaie
Pelated Polalaesscre se... 2 0Bya Ben
Goto Hundeerchitats, print 1 Seach 2
BO catinncies Betaae We
eee 2
Wenel Ahire Bult 4/01Ngrom Bhat 5
Paeceteaeeet HOWpack — {OSL

From the above, it will be seen that about ten
times na much le paid for an article in the rebel
citica ns it coats inthe North. Surely, we have no
cause yet to complain when we conalder the state of
affaira in the South. Employment and money are
‘more abundant in the North than they have beea for
years, which ally makes up for the ndvageea in the

the navy that obey their belm eo readily as tho
Monitore, The reason is eell-evideat. Tho large

rice of living. The past wintor has beea an exceed
fogiy easy one to the poor In our midat, -

NEW ¥ORK CITY,

(Correspeadence of The Press.)
“New Yone, April 20, 1853,
PROSPERITY

eoemsts be the rule;rather than the mostgozeral
exception even, with all branches of induatry,
Every mortal shopkeerer, from the exerchant prince
downto the humblest tradesman, sppears to be
doings maximum ‘business; nearty all ywordable
commedities are desvor than usual, tut the ‘buyers
for everything are pleatiful, and have the cash. The
great donlera in the more expensive ‘luxuries of
dress and housckeeping, whore yearly store rents
are 80 many fortunes, make no complnint of s falling
off of custom, and meet their notes with a promptl-
tude: indicative of-tleady thrift, Though public
charities of all kidds have but te appear tobe an-
awerel by the mont liberal contritatongythelr de~
pendanta aro fewer now than ever before. All
through the cold weather, and up to the present
time, there has beer. lees euffering amongst the poor
of ~this elty than was ever known previously
forthe same peridd. From twenty-five 'to thirty
different places of public amusement sre open
every week, and all receiving ample patron-
age. The money market is absolutely pletho-~
rie for certain sud uncertain inveatmento-ef every
deecription—Government atocke, real estate, bond
and mortgage, -snd railway peper. Take the
maczes all throughj from master mechanice down to
apprentice boyayand they all rex to here more
money to spend for pleasuro thaa ever before. If
we are not living pon a tremendous finnocial bub
ble—if what we aro using for rendy money is really
20 much cash—if the present Aanncidl policy of the
nation 1a ae sound, systematic, and well guarded
agninst contingennies, aa it cortataly appeara to be,
andasevery attendant olroumstance and conrequence
Indicates that itis, our country teen enigma, and &
miracle amonget the Powers of the-earth, WNothiog
mfikes the ultimate annihilation of the Soathern
rebellion go cettsin ae this vigorous prosperity of
the North; forwhile it continues, anti while bank-
ruptey and famine make proportionste havoo
anionget our enemice, battics, Won or lost, osm only
bethe scoidente of the war, in no way affecting ite
fine! issue,

THE FASHIONS

for the remualader of the epring and the wholeof the
sucmer eonzon aro already reveated by the oracles,
and promigo to make "Miss Flora AfcFlimeny, of
Madison Square,” nore glorious for Saratoga, Wew-
port, and Long Branch, than ever, she will wear a
bonnet suggestive of woven steam, @immed with
owera and feathers of exquisitely tortared.atraw.
Her hair will preseat an assortment of all the foncl-
ful sforms, mixtureo, argregate attitudes, bizarre
curvatures, and bewildering conglomerations of
Which the capillary, aided by olly art, Io st all aus
ceptible. The mostconsplcuous object.of the "roar
elevation” of this marvellous head-ploce, will be a
high golden comb, enriched with mossice, or adore
cd with jewels, Frot the middlediatante of the
summit, a binl-ofpsradise feather will curve back-
ward in gentle agitation, to fall delientely to the
shoulder. Mies McFlimsay’s favorite ocoklace will
compoced of the most Gelleately-tinted amber beads
attaineble, Her deosa will be 'n rich moire of
peach blorzom, or light violet hue, with all the
rarities of polite botany scattered vivaclously over
{tthe roses, llller, leaves, ete., Increasing in size 88
they approach the bottom of the skirt, where they
lose themselves In a superb border of heavy eatin
Slower gecden. This last (den Je a modificatton of
the Eugeate border, which represented a branch of
cherry tree with leaves etd feult, a brid’s neot half
bidden by the foliage, bet still revealing It <egs,
Aad abird dying out of ft, Mas MoFllmeny’e elyal
for the heart of Oharles Augustus the younger, wil
wear— wall, you may judge what she will wear by
alittle elrcumatance Iam sbout to relate. On Erie
day evemlog, when the ateamer Britieh Queen Bad
Just arrived kere from Havana, and while tho pao
‘sengers, who chose to go schore that night, were
getting their-carpet.baga ‘paseed” by the custom
houte officer 4a charge, a fashionable young-lady
Passenger, Who was accompacied by her mamma,
timidly requoated anid urbace and susceptible
official to “please to pare my birds.” These ‘binds
Were contained ia a small glass case, and proved to
be a number of very brilllant glow worms, It isthe
custom with the belles of Havans society to encloae
these flaming insects in the Iace or crape flounces
of their dressea as oroamente, and the effect, I ean
aseure you, ia singularly effulgent. The fashion te
to be introduced here this summer, and Mise Mc-
Flimaay's quecoly rival will exploit tt.

‘A SISTER OF GERALD GRIFFIN, —
the famous Irish novellat, Was buried from St. Ste-
phen’s Roman Cathol(o Church in this city, a few
dayango. Thongh born in Limerick, Ireland,
venty-two years ago, ehe had realded in this country
for many years, having atrue Ireh regard for our
republican inatitutlons, and galaing a large clrele of
warm personal friends, no leas by her refined {ntel-
lectual characteristica than by her am{able qualities
of beart. Another name, haying honorable men-
tion in etandard literature, bas also taken the geal
of death Ietely. Mr, Gabriel Franchere, who died
atSt. Paul, Minnesota, on the 12th, was a member
of the drm of Franchere & Oo., of thigclty, and the
last eurvivor of John Jacob Astor's famous '‘ Asto-
ria” expedition, Washington Irving, in hie foe
book of “ Astoria," quotea largely, and with credit,
from Mr, Franchere, who became su intimate friend
of the author.

A LARGE WAGER
was won yesterday {p this style: From ten o'clock
in the morolog until sunset, the Broadwayites were
editied with the appearance upon the cross-walk of
‘one of the streets laterscctiog Broadway just above
Grace Obureh, of a very distingué aweeper, whore
coxtume, excepting hie coal, hat, an boots, was
that of a frahiooable gentleman. Diligently’ he
plied ble rugged broom before the steps of exch
person erossing the street in question, revealing a
carefully-Jreased head of hair ss he removed his hat
‘on reachiog the curb, and solicited contributions for
hlamuddy Jabor, Quite s crowd gathered on the
cornera towards evening, to tare at him, and though
his business had been good all day, it then became
gorgeous shower of panies and postal currency.
At sunset (or near that) he suddenly stopped his
work, threw his broom clear across Broadway,
jumped into n carringe which had just driven up
close by, and was whirled away around the cornet
of Fourteenth street before the spectators had euili-
clently recovered from thelt astonishment to pursue,
Probably you have already guessed the true facta
ofthe entre; the mysterious sweoper wns A young
man of fasion, who had made n bet with a friend
the night before that he could collect twenty dol-
Iara inn day from the public by playing sweeper
in the costume I have noted. The matter was
to be a close scoret between the two until the
wager was decided, and he who offered the bet
pledged bimeclf not to recognize any of his {rienda
who might encounter him during his employment
with the broom, nor make any advances, oF con-
fidences, or give any intlinations of which any
ragged sweeper might not legitimately avail him-
zelf. The amount he aptually collected was $27.15.
The Indies were most liberal in their donations, aud
sometimes gave him fifty-cent and twenty-tiveceat
postsle, They ‘pitied ” him moat generously, and
‘on one cession a lady leaned from her carriage,
which was passing slowly, to hand him her contri-
bution, Here tan idea for come one of the more
prosperous genuine vagrants ; let him got bimeelf up
in the “reduced gentleman’ style, and he can
make a fine Income—while the novelty lasts,
THE “ PETERHOFF" OASE.

ie pretty near a settlement; the Prize Commla-
stoners have heard all the evidence required, and
will report to the court in 4 few days whether the
British steamer “Peterhoif” fs, or is oot, in their
Judgment, a lawful prize ta the United States ace)
cording to the international usage. Inthe interim,
it will do no barm to epeculate a little upon the
knowa facts of the ease; ani basing thelr con-
clusion upon these facts, a majority of people, 1 Bnd,
entertain very little doubt that the ‘ Peterhott"’
will be returned to the British, with au allowance
‘of all the claims for Jamages tacitly admitted by the
act of surrender. Tho refusal of the suthori-
tlea nt Washington to permit the mail of the
captured vessel to bo opened and examined
by the Commissioners is regarded as pretty con-
elusive evidence that our Government has little
faith in the legality of the seizure, and deaires to
make amends forthe suppored rash action of Com-
modore Wilkes with as little cltcumlocution as pos-
aible. Had the opening of the maitbag been permit
ted, it might either have revealed ample justification,
of the capture, independently of the other suspicious
circumstancea about the cargo and pasrengers of the
atoamer ; or it might have #0 completely cleared her
of all suspicion of being contraband, aa to make the
sforeanid extraneous suspicious circumstances of
nonccount whatever. There was s decided risk in the
‘ease, which our Government does not think It worth
while to incur,without palpable justification thero-
for—a justification not to be found In the other indl-
cations of the veseel’s character. Leaving the mail
altogether out of the argument, there can be n0
doubt that the legality of the eeizure 1s a matter of
serlous question; and the fact that thero is any
| queation at all about it, Js equal to an admission

Vist

that the Peterhoff will be turned over to Lord
Lyons ‘if he-Hemands ‘her, The oneo is almost an
exact parallel with the Trent affair, Indeed, that
precedent Would settle It at once, without the least
extra formality,"out for aeingle pointof difference,
which may give Secretary Seward sn opportunity
to ‘snub Earl ‘Russell with another of his dex
terous letters on international law and equity,
It was astd, in the time of the Treat die
pute that, {('Captain Wilkes hedieized the ves
os vil as the rebel ambasscdors, the act would have
been legal. In thin case, Wilkes hne st least avoided
ho former’ersor; and if any of the pereoua aad
‘things found upon the ' Peterhoif’ were really coo
treband, fhe? point, certainly, canaot be made by the
British clftmants. ‘There is undoubtedly a fine op~
portunity ‘for a lengthy and ingeaioua diplomatic
wrangle overihe affair, If Secretary Seward {s dis
posed to thed-temporizing ink forhis country ; but
abit looke/ns<hough the stenmercaunt inovitably be
given up nt Jaat, perhaps the most dignified and bu- |
sinees-like course that could be pursued le the one
which onr Government woulthacem to have deter |
mined on,

STUY VESANT.
‘AN EDITORIAL UETTER.

(From the Weehlogrou "Chronicle",
New Yoni, April 1, 1863, |
Wisitors to New York eon @ad the standard
interentingzad novel objects qutaite of thé regular
exhibitions sand shows, Many persons come here
with a general idea that if they have any leisure to
enjoy Itmhouté be expended at the theatre or the
opera, oF by-aride to the CentraliMark, or a recherche
dinner at/Delnonico's or the “#oure of Gold.”
Ane with thio-cxperionce they go beck to their homce
to delight geplag crowds with stories of the won |
derv they have ecen nnd the plecaures they have
shared. -Butrthere in material for more profitable
study apd gratifieation far below ithe polished eur
{te of theso oyer-adyertised and :over-pratsed Instl-
‘Letine describe what ncoident revenled to
me & fow days ago ne T walked along Broadway.
Evengbolly secms to be in a hurry in the chief
Avent of thistlve of acity, The rapid movemeate
of the-foot-pasecngers, the sheioke of the omalbue
drivers, the berculean efforts of the policemen to
rescue unifortiante females who are-constantly get-
ting dangled Jo the harneea‘of the carriages and
vehilelea, “nnd the altogether new compound of
sights, omelle, and sounds, overpower the quict
stranger with alternate emotions of fear, auger, aod
Aniusement, Itavas the tidal hour of this rushing

torrent, and ta «one of the eddies formed in cor-
ner by A gtoppage of the current of travel at
8 crosolug,T mot my friend B. S. bandford, jy

dent of the Great American Telegraph Company,
To mysaquiries about hie place of Vusiness he re-
plied by naling metolook Inupon it; nnd what T saw
shall be the subject of thisletter, Tt was a satietac
Hon and 6 surpriee. We know little about telegr

or telegraph oificea In our cities and towns.
only here that wo can realize at once:the magoiti-
cenco aud the magnitude of that system which, with
ito thoueand electric fibres and tonguea, throbs with

and tatke to mlliicas of people eyery day. "There
Is otir office,” said Mr. Sandford. T saw a vast
buildlog of O1x stonles, fronted with 2 oign de-

noting it to be the headquarters of the Ameri-
can and Euiialo Telegraph Companies. The firet
floor is devoted to the recelving of despatches
nod the operation of transmitting them, A large
room Was fillet with what ecemed to me to be a
Woun “of youss fellows playiag oa sual piaaos;
ench fino Fentol at bis eae hidden from, alght by
the bask-board which laced me. as I walked throve!
this afrabge orchestra. very desk was get apart to
some special duty. One Wan Tabeled * Mgntreal,”*
another © Waehiogtoa," end eo on with the princl-
al cities. One was marked "The Newspaper
Press," and others were set _npart for finnaclal dea
patches. Esch operator had an Instrument at bie
aide, and materials for writing, and a book Io
which he entered every message after it had been
nent. Here the Morse system was used, and I think
at Icast thirty-five persona sre constantly at work at
their respective deeke. In the rear of these were
the House printing telegraph machines. They ex-
actiy rexemble plans, aod were belog played upon
with great velocity by the artists who had them in
charge, The second story ie appropriated to the
usco of the officers of the company. Here I met
thnt accomplished gentleman, the new chief engi
heer, Marshall Lefferts, 0’ well-remembered in
Washiagton and elsewhere, a the colonel of the
sat 7th Regiment, an organization which from be-
fg the pride of this metropolin became s. national
example, as well because of Ite prompt patriotien,
8 for Ita perfect discipline and the high character of
Ita rsok and file, The filth story 18 a battery room.
Wonderful is the order In this apartment. It ta
arranged to accominodste over one thousand cella
of "Grove's and Prinsen’s Coke” hattery. Here
is where the telegraphic fibres that stretch all
over the land are fed with fire. All these Iron nerves
are brought tato the building through the cupola
Which eurmounte the building, and from whlch we
bad a gorgebus view of the city, the bay, and the ad-
Jncent country.

1 fearesare at bork in tie Heaving
fente, are. at wor) ea!
ntlous masd! What life and death |
‘Duay and terrific struggle to fill the brief
space of the one with honor or with riches; what #
pegieg ef the certainty of the other! From this
height 1 could fancy the marvellous mission of the
telegraphic machine, Stretchiog In one unbroken
perve to San Francisco in one direction, and to Oape
Race in another, Mr. Sandford expecta It shortly to
reach Europe via the Atlantic cable, When this is
laid, this nerve, or nery wil vibrate in Pekit
Chios, and in Yeddo, Japan, He estimat
that when the great Russian scheme of aw tele-
grapble line ‘and enble by way of Hebring’s Strall
ja accomplished, of which he entertains no doubt,
the earth will be girdled in Jess tlme than Puck
could do’ It The “Americas Telegraph Company
own over elght thousand miles of telegraph line,
nod. more than sixteen thouennd tiles of wire.
‘They have four hundred and thicty-two offices and
employ come fifteen hunied peroas. They con-
nect with all the main telegraphic lines of this coun-
try and Great Britain, Add to this enormous
wealth and power the fact that they own the patents
for a new and faster ayatem of telegraphing, which
ie now belng perfected, and you have some once]
tion of the magnitude of an enterprise which, within
tay own recollection, wae made the scott anil scora
of the doubter. and which for a period covered the
inventor, Mr, Morac, with all the mortification that
reaulted from the jealousy of some antl the ignorance
of more. Unlike many other discoverers, he lives to
euler: tho fruits of bis genus And to prove an ex-
ception fo the rule that great minds aro only the
laborére dud sutferers foro UngrateCul posterity.

‘The experiments indicate a change in the entire
stolus oftelegraphing, a reduction of expenses to the’
company, and tn the coat to its customers. Beale
the general connections of this grest aesociation,
the company owns a “City Line,” which embraces
the whole metropolis and suburbs, including Long
Taland, Staten Island, sod o number of the river
towne. Under thia organization It has already esta-
Uiluhed 15 ollices, kad expects to have 11 more prior
tothe firatof Tune, The advantages of such 4 tele
graph as this are beyond calculation. Lt will prove
to be 4 new power to the company and 8 vast £0-
clal ud hustness convenienco to the public. And
Twas not surprised to hear that parttovlar atten
tlon wae bels ven to the details of the whole plan,
The penny post and all other Inventions to (nclll-
tate local correspondence will be contemptible in
comparison with thie city line of electrical inter
couree. A gentleman can invite a sudden party of
fifty to bis house, reaching hie frienda who are miles
‘away ina few minutes, and all thi na genteelly aa if
it were done by carde. Tidings of good or bad im-
port, messages of hostility sad meraages of low
sales of stocks andenles of property, and the myriad
things now executed by slow and stupid errand
boys, can be sent and anawered with equal rapliity

curacy.

Ae I eaw the intelli

their cozy desica, eond

‘What

ent young fellows, altting at

fing off nal copying deepatel £8,
A thought occurred to me, why doea not thia great
Company employ fenales to do at least s share of
this wort of Work? Ono of the great unsolved pro-
Dems of elvilization fa the proper reward and often
the final reaeue of the thousands of honest women
In the over-avvollen elttes of the Old Worl and the
New, Onn ft be accomplished, Mr, Sandford? Thie
great cotablistment 18 entitled, “The American
Telegraph Company,” chartered by the State of
New Jeraey in 1859." Present officere—E. S. Sand
ford, president; Marwball Lefferts, chiet engineer;
Caubridge Livingstone, secretary.” Maln office, 148
Broadway, corner of Liberty atreci, J. W. B

Consoumation OF Reaments.—Durin;
the next twvé or three months the term of service o
many of the eoldier gow in the field: will expire.
‘Thie will leave inany skeleton regiments, as themen
in the eeveral regiments have becn enlisted nt dle
fereat perlode, there being in some casen over 8
year's difference la thelr tine. These ekele(on regi-
Inenta will no doubt, be consolideted, as provision
has been made for this in the nct for'enrolling and
calling out the national forces. The following are
the rules to be observed in consolidating the regl
ments:

Tnfontry.—Each regiment will be consolidated Into
five or less number of companies, and the colonel,
major, and one agalatant surgeon shall be mustered
out.

Cavairy.—Each regiment will be consolidated Later
aix or les number of companies, and the colonel, two
majors, and one nssistant aurgeon mustered out.

Avidiery,—Each regiment will be consolidated Into
six or leas number of batteries, and the colonel, two
majorg, and one assistant surgeon mustered out,
Companies and batteries, formed by consolidation,
Will be of maximum strength, and will be organize
na now directed by Inw and regulation. The fifteen
letters of the alphabet will bo uted to dealgnate com:
panies.

‘All company officers, commissioned snd non-com-
mianioned, reqdered supernumerary, willbe mustered
outof service at the date of consolidation. All other
ollicera and non-commiestoned officers will be re-
tained. Oilicers to be retained will be selected by
division and corps commanders, under the instruc
tiona of the commanding general ofthe army or de-

tment, from among the most etfictent officers of

the reapective regiments, After the consolidation It
is directed that the reduced proportion of officera
will be maintained, and no appointments to vacancle
will be made except upon notification from the ad-
Jutant general of thgarmy, To this end commanders
of armies aad departments will report weekly to the
adjutant fe ‘all vacancies to be filled, Said re-
[ports wull be separate for each Stato, and must em-

race name, rank, aud regiment of the patty cren-

FENNSYLVANIA ITEMS.

| MONTGOMERY COUNTY
Mrcerans—The Oth Regiment (drafted men) were
d.on the Za of March, forfour months services. The
Riiest ecoomats from the’ Stet, Coloael Bartran ty Parr
Dtitto bs at Perle, Bourboacounty, Kentucky, abuet
ity miles eouthof Clocipoesl. It bas prohably'muured
forwurdere this Frou thetPth le arws that Clone]
Soawals casblered by court martial, Sas been orticed
toyoud thr Hues by Genera Schack A correswndent
of oneaY durexchngges retracts his defouce of Dr. Ohet-
hollter. diswesed from tus army by Hooker. Saco
Feadlog Obarholtzer' Tetiee, from cemp to tue Weakly
Phot, be mart admit that ao loyal man would

Write waeh aot
LAROASTER,

Pevuin Hpock, the ringleader of the Berke sounty
avian! Wh eniden ta ead \Coealen tows
thie county, Nad his praperty levied upon, by tho sherri
On Friday ‘ant His tothordia-hace, who bad lala
SGatust hits, Immediately upos bearisg of ble complicity
‘sith tho tmasuguble omfanfeation, cnnde Ilmseif recure
iby attacniar’ the proparty. The devaty sherlf whe
served the executinn, foand Huber’ fealty lu apalaal
SEato of alarm nod frobe (he ddmlecone made by heels,
SC'eppears that Haber bes teeacogaced Jn 1uitinag
membenrof tho (eaoauble sockesy daring tbe inte
Gvthe meglect of hla varlness. “Ells wife freuueatly
omsindiod with, hii, sod told sma fhe dig avt desk
Towonle ket higealf into trsubie. - Cutortanetaly for
herself, hor predictions were op}s/2o0fally realtasa Tat
this bee warning to ofbern Teealatauce Uo (he he » will
surely ba followed bytrouble—Tancoster Express,

As Iduusiocs Posteioinsr. Wo arglected Co zoeation
Jn" Gur last that David Armstrong. Je, an ludantrlous
colored’ bluckntth, wax shop Sax brokes. Ince sev
Fal times aad his bellinws ripped ap, has ut feagts found
Gat the maleious porpetrator. David bad lou aaspect
eda rival bleckenthe-a Germanciated Cooutey-dolo
Businees linmediately opposites und bu vet (rapt catch
iin, sod bad the eatlesetton of fading tha: he
Fichi ta tegard to the persva bintued, abd alsa of Late
fata preliy’severe:pucishwent The trap eae gn
loaded with shot, and eo arranged onthe anvil
pou nay attempt'toopen the dour. the weapon eoeld be
vdGcharqeds and upon the atienpl to repeat the deateacs
ion uf the bellows, tho person uedertaking tho task ro-
Cclved.che Wad Ia lie abil and ofSer portions of bis per-
Son,'aud for bis troablo. left three of his Sugere at cho
shop door Lancaster Rzckanige

| CHESTBE.

Dears. —Thoothy Paxton, ao eatinable citieen of
Badbary township, commited suicldo recently, adder
Inducoco of @ nervous disease, skibeages! 60. Valen:
Hue Sholeigh; @ reapectable farmer of Eset Coveutr
Syed:7k. wae found dead beblod ble lara a few weeks

aco, Mr. Mickle, who fell tn tho boiling eaaldran at
(he Beaver Dam ‘Paper Mill, Buck Run, Bast Fallow.

dia fow daya after the acelsoat.' Ho was in tbe
act of throwing wo are-load of a the caaidron

‘Whon bo foll forward Into the vealding mass,

Misoustaxroun—Baos Smediy bas sold bis, farm In
Willistown, thisconnty—257 acres to Jainet Palate, of
Montgomery connty, for £9),00

‘Tho Bank of Chester eoauty discounted 845 060 on tho
Sst of Mlerch, und 60,020 on the previous Friday.

‘The East Peuueylvanis Axeleuitural Buclely have
chunged the day of bolding the horse exalbition at Chee-
for, trot the Dh to the uth.

‘Tho supply of markets is hot eal to the demand.
Why doa our country friends brusb np snd attend ?
‘They will find quick salesand lange profits, eaye ache

ter paper.
a DELAWARE
Lsrenyat Rryexve.—The whole amoant assessed un
der the United States oxci-e law, fa the 7th collection
district, compored ofthe countles of Chester wad Doln-
Ware, in the month of Janaary lust, Was 625,492 16, of
which Delaware county contribats §210'0. This
Tigdsom kom shows the amonnt of by S bramruct
ed in onrcoanty, subject to taxation, nod Is largely to
exes of that pald by our ister county of Chester —Re

publican,

BERKS.
Rownunics.—Op Monday night the tron safo of the
frolgut clerk of the Readiog Railroad, al Readicg, was
oponed nod robbed of the large sum of tea thousand and
nltety-rix dollare, which had been placed thi ro (or este~
keeplug. ‘The lodications stem

opened with & bey, as uo violene
entrance.
hardly

reas
a Siturday evening some boy. who hays
tafued uel toth year, etvetad ac pelcance tote
iing ou Asn alley, ueat Washington strest, aud
Broke opsa a Uarcat a2d tock Uerattaas e polation
And soins otuer jowelry.—Reatting ‘ime
YORE.
Hs —Rev, Mr. Hofhelen of Abbottstown, 1
leat and exemplary minister, died on Satar-
day avweek, frommsovore chil taken while preaching
fadernt tormaon at Borla
Biverenove Disarreixaxce,—Raw, Jobn P. Balrd
receatly chamlata of the Sith Pangeyleaut Togtuneat
Snd formerly satioaed at Cedarvliiey Now Jersey. ete
Msnome ie York very mysteriously na sunday nigh
Ue Gilrinstant, nud his wot bee heard of sacs He a
Montz yearnot age, 6 foot vacbes bgt Uae fale bale
lina complexion, aud wears glasses, He'was ip. a very
ielancholy state of mind for- some days beibre he Ver
and particularly saat the time nelefe. Any inforipation
35 (o bla whereabouts will bs thanktslly received. by 3
feuds io this borough Plewe nédrese Soimuel Sina,
Eagiy oreditore of the York @asette
CARBOR.

Tigeixess hes now falrly opened to this region of conn-
trys Tie cautal lu execliont repair, ned inves qanaits
Hes of coal nto being shipped at oar ‘wharves, au Lez
bigu Valley Ratiroad ir dolog ao tmacave business, and
Tis double frack hos Broa comploved surge portion, ot
the srayibetwress Slauck hunt ned Easton

Ax tecinexr nocurred avar Rockport oa Taesday Inet
which resulted in the killing of Ove men, It oceurred
Trough thn crematuro vxplorion of maid blast au the
tine of tue White Havea aud Penn Haven Railroad:

The swrrenenactrtbe pieaante care have commmraced
ranting aver thes Switen-back’™ Ratlronds
Gieads will Sad thst © ride over: the awite
Rmiply repay them for a Joaruey to our
clog. fateh Chun Gasete

CLINTON.
Rartiso ~The splendid wenthor of tho tart tem daye
Wat tuned tho river aud Ceibataries (0 bn eleenot:ralttag
nd Hustiog coeditien. Cur boom inal Slied with fore
Shijthrlaor in conened with rats” Peeve (or eqaars
Minber'etill ranse blebs ‘Ou Movdty week naive aa ape.
ove wat rslsed Gutheriver: A rant broke loove at Mossy
(worand quickly kaceked a xumber.of others loose
In'n'very tow mioates ail the ratte on the Lockport
Bore feemed to beta motion, aad exrtainty ovary rafts
han was Fortunatoly, the Brat rafts struck. the plere
Sr'the bridgn #0. 48 to swing (hem across aud form &
Boon, ‘Reily*nll were tuved, -vournat Lockhacen.
FRANKLIN,

‘eronax —Mr. Toroph Natl, a yoteran of
tn warof 1902, died ae his noidence: in’ Ebi county
Sabdoy weeks at an advanced tam His served bis eoan’
frduriog thay memorable campalga, and was Wounded
{ube battle of Lake Belo,
ADAMS.
We learn, from the Gktyshurg Compiler that of
‘Thursday bight weeks abgue 30 Uelocke ur on. 8 Re
Rusll wus fetucbiog to ls, home, be’ was assailed
When eat bis residence, tn Yorietreet, The ecoundre
Muck him sosnral blowyason the Bead (with a cage of
fillet wattaficted no sarioae tajars.. The judge raised
heey of slaean when thowitfaia made bis ceeape. Too
intention wen evidently (veer possession of the jaags’s

iel-booke.
ia LYCOMING.

New Bains) —The Philadelphia apd Erlo Ralle
Comapany lite completed a Nas uew bridge over (bo ean
Sttheloter und of Wiiliemsport.Ithhes been construct
SGarthoat tie fnterraption at the raaaing or sagt
tale

Ruy-F. ©. H. Laspu wns Spalted’ na, psetor of the
Euuilse Bvangolteal Lutheran Churen, of Willisaeort,
Test Sunday: moralee, April 10, 188% by tae Rev. Hi. 8
Miter, of febanom, Pa:

Tax —The Stats Board of Rerenoy Commitsloners baye
(netensed the valuation of tealund porsoual property Ia
Useumaw couutyy on Wht enw a tax of Chrey waite
{ge'State purposes” By tho return ofebteowmmniscion
thetotal valontion wae #h20,27 Tho Raveuue Board
Bove placed Neat @6913,20), belng an increase of 18 per

out
MONROE.
Bonyxtxe 18 Eeriay.—We have been toformed that we
wore reevutly burnt lb e@iey st Beaafort, South Caroling,
Py the officer of the Web Kexuncat Pennsylvania Mw:
Wik Munroe Democrat.
COLUMBIA
Fox a letter reesived from Major Chamberlin, who
as Gooll appointed. provost marebal of Forkloway we
Teara that e refages from Richmond reports that ladon
the great “bread rloP” ullnded fo In one last, tha women
ofthe rebel capital nctually eheered for the Union and
for Abs Lincola, ‘This Is elgalfeant —Repudlican.
ERIE

Ustox Micis It, as many of our readers kuowe, ove of
tho Tuoat prospyrone towns 1a Bris conaty—recond (o Bris
only lu populeiion and commercial and insuufectariog
tide, felelocsted.on tho Philadelphia und Erle Rail
Toad 26 milex frm Eri, and 12 miles from Corry, ‘The
‘Ailantle and Great Western Railroad passes directly
ihronah tho northera part of the village, sbont one-quar.
tor of # milo from tho Philadelpbls and hilo Reilroad
Depot.” The distaneo from Colon to Meadville, om tho
‘Atisntle aud Great Wosteru Railroad, ts 2 wiles, and oo
the came rund fram Union to Corry 12 tolles,—Brie Wa
sette

Tr Roana—Weean traly say that never tn any for-
mor year, Within our tecolleetion, have the roads been
in'as unite condition for easy wodapeedy travelling us
during the months bolween Noveraber and April.
Jeant einco 186s eame ia, there has bean no week wnde ap
of revou consecutive days, dariox which tha roads were
Srdiuatily passable all through the tae, ‘The alterna.
lous have been sory rapid from good to bad, and quite
Slow from bad to gocd, A change for the better nas
{akon plage withia tho last fev days. 7212.
FAYETTE. .

‘Our eity
back will
mountain

Dratm or §

held at

Coprenucan,—A Copperliead meeting was
Moxtey's schioil-byuse on Saturday evening last. and
odurested by n goutleman from Tor gessce, luton cclonal

Tu the rebel army, We anderstand bo bosits of having
Docu Ia fitean battles, abd killed ss rascy Oaton olllcers
kod soldiers. He aught to be & little cautious of bis
Eituiera reputation, for if Its found oot that he bas
boon mingling with the Northern ‘‘ousce mon” bis
Soutbern fricude will hold thelr noses to ona sido and
Uisdain to mest him when he returge (°° Dixle.—
Untontoren paper.
PPT RADFORD,

Gor Cumriy bas appelated Professor Cobora, of
Bradford coubly, State Superintendout of Comineu
EGioois, Tho appotatee ts highly spokes of

SUSQUEUANSA

A Lanor Caty,=The Nelo Jersey. Leader, Wy an ex-
cotelot atu ot three pounds, beat an In reporting (ao
fiavlest tine | bot weleballedgs Tormy ta Weat tbe fol
Iowings Mee Bil Barnes, of Jackson, thie county, re,
parts to tbo Patependdent Republican thet n exit owed
fy him, grade Darian, wolgued, at twelve hours” old,
Wepoaade

TAnie Hies’s Boo.—Mr. Stowart Mead, of Bridgerra-
tor owns the hou that Taid the eee thet wae reeaelly
iid ou the editor's table, wad was found to weigh foar
Guuicos agd 10 meuaure eight Tucbes ip elrewrateretiea
The proof of ag seg, us of a ponding, tn latte rallog:
aud Wo know thac that wax & good cgx, as Well aia
Ire one. —Montrose Repubtican

Hosrira Sratistics FOR THE Last

THE INCOME.TAX REGULATIONS.

The Commissioner of Internal Revenue hhs just
{esued the following regulations for the assesment
of the Income tax :

The neecsror nnd assistant asseesors of enc? col-
lection district will assess the incqme tax, on tho
first das of May text. upon every person residing
within the dietrict Ilabie thereto. Each pereon w!
be required to return bis tolal Income. so {xr a8 ape
cifsing the tourcea from which it ts derived na to
enable the assistant assessor to decide what deduc-
tions-ehall be made therefrom. Persons whose tn-
comes do not execed the eum of $10000, and who
reside in the United States, will be subject to a duty
of per cent. on such portion thereof aaie liable to
taxation : Provided, hoewr, That upon an income
derived from intéreat upon notes, bonds, or other
securities of the Ualted States, 8 duty of 134 Ber
ceat. will be Jovied. Persons whose Incomes Ox,
eced $10,000 will be subject to m duty of & per cent
on the portion thereof subject te taxation 5 Prov
however, That upon an income derived from lnteres
upon notes, hoods, or other securities of the United
Sintes a duty of ‘ove and s half per cent. will be
levied, Gitizeas of the United States residing abroad,
And not in the employmentof the Government of the:
United States, will be subject tora duty of five per
cent on the Inconie of any property, securities, oF
stocks owned In the United states and pot excaipt-
ed from the income tax: Provided, however, That
upon the income derived from interest upon the
notes, bonds, or other ecourities of the United
States a duty of one and a alt per ceat, will bo
levied,

Bvery farmer or planter will be required to make
a return of the valuo of the produce of bie farm oF
plantation, without deduction for the Inbor oF ser
vices of blweelf or his family, or for any portion
Of. much produce consumed by himselt ar family.

‘Thevollowing deductions will be made from the
aggregate Income of each person and the tax nascased
upon the remiaioier, vilz.: The State nnd local taxes
aageaeed In the calendar year preceding this assess—
ment, towit; from January 1, 1662. to December
31, 1663, inclusive, The salaries of officers, or pay-
ments to persons in the eersice or employment of
the United States, from which n deduction. of three
per cent. haa teed made by the disbursing oflcor of
the Government. The loterest or dividends on
stock, capital, ordepositein any bank, trust com:
pany, savings Institution, insurance, bridge, express,
Mteamboat, ferry-boat, tnllroad company, oF cor:
poration, from which interest or dividends & duty of
three per cent. shall have beea deducted by the ofl
cera of such companies, corporations, or assocla-
fons. Interest from any hoads or other evidences
of Indebtedness of any tallroad company or other
corporation, from whieh a duty of three per cent
shall haye been deducted by the officers of such
company of corporation, and receipts derived from
advertieements on which a duty ehall have been as
seasedand pald. Alto, that the aum of $602, 0x
cept in those eases where the whole or any part of
sald 6600 shall have been deducted from the sala
riea or pay of olficers or perzons in the service OF
employment of the United States. ‘The amount
actually pald for the rent of any divelling house or
catate which fa the residence of the peraoa nesessed,
and the Amount paid by say farmer or planter {oF
bired labor, aud the necessary Fepalra upon his farm
or plantation, tucludiog the subsistence of the 1s-
borers,

‘Wheaever the total Income of any person exceeds
$10,000, nod deduetions are raade there(rom upon the
fround that a portion of such income hasbeen eub-
Ject to a 3 per cent. duty upan divideuts or tatereat

aid by companies, corporations, or aseociations, a

efore chumernted, such person will be subject to a.
tax of 2 per cent. additional ujion so much of bis In-
coute ns may have teen previously subjected to a.
duty of 3per cent. by the officers of the companica,
corporations, or associations hefore named

Gunniians and trustees, whether euch trustees are
20 by virtue ol their oflide or executors, ndminiatra-
tora, or oltier diuciary capacity, are ‘required to
make return of the income belonging to minors, oF
other persons, which may be heli’ in trust. no afore
said, and the locome tax. wlll be ageeesed pon the
amount returned, after deducting euch sums as are
exempted from the income.tax, ag sforesnld : Provi-
de}, That the exemption of $600, under section 90,
of theexcite lai, shall not bs allowed, on account
of any minor or’other bencticiary of a truat, except
npon the statementof the guardian or trustee. made
underoath, that tho minor or benetisjary bas no
other income from which the asid amouat of $600
may be exempted and deducted.

Whenever persona liable to asacrement of income
tax shall negleot or refuse to make the Ilata required,
by law, as when the liste made snd tendered by such,
Persone shall not be accepted by the asecssor or as-
sistant asseator as just nod proper, It shall be the
duty of such aaacsacr or asslatant aksessor to make
Mets for such persons accorJing to the Ueat {oforma-
tion he can obtain. Persoos 40 ascesaed may make
oath or aitirmation as to the amount of income and
deductions therefrom, agreeably to section 93.

Persons recelving ret may deduct therefcom the
amount paid for necessary repairs, insurance, and
interest on incumbranees upon such tented oroperty-
The cost of new structures or lenjrovements to bulldt-
ings, eball not be deducted from the income.

The tax must be levied upon all dividends do
clared prior to September 1, 1862, nod upan $600 of
all salaries of officers, or payments to persone in
civil, military, naval, or other servize of the United
States, for sorvices rendered prior to said date, ag
auch dividends and proportions of aslaries were not
subject to deduction or assceament.

Interest received from or duc by truat compantes,
Savings Institutions, insurance, brideo, express,
steamboat, ferry boat, aud rallrond compaaics, cor
vorations, or assoclatiogs prior to the same date,
must also be taxed. Interest pald by him oa lo
eumbrances upon the dwelliog-house or eatate on
which the aseesced person resides, may be deducted
from the income ; also bis payments for necessary
repatra.

rm produce which the producer bas oo hand on
the dlstday of December, 1882, must be appraised at
ite market value on that day.

The income tax shall be fncluded in the anni
lst, and appeals anu other proceedings held ax pro
vided by law,

MARRIED.

RUTTER—BULL.—On che 18th Instoat, by the Rey.
James Hay, D.D., Henry J- Raltar to Mrs! Aona P.. Boll,
MASON-HALLOWELE.—On the loth igstuut, at the
residence of (he b ido's father, by Frands’ con'mony,
Before Mayor Hoory, Mr. Will aco Mason to Mien 4a,
T. Hollowell, bath of Gormantowo. $
SCUDDER-MOORE!—On the 9h instant by tho Rav.
T De Witt Talmage, Mr. Johu V, teaddar to Mies Jan-
ain H. Moora, both af thiscily.(Noeurda.) .
GREGG—DAY.—April 16, by Rov. BE. Adana, at tho
residence of Mr. Thomas H. Wood, 154 Greg atroet,
William L-Greeg, con of Isise Grene, Esa. of Pittabara,
gpa Hatie Loutse Day, daautter of Cstsia Chas. Di
faustield, Mazz :
CARY —PORTENARI MER —Oo Thareday, the 6th La~
aol, at St. John’s Church. Ithies, Naw Yark, by tho
Rey, Dr, Walker. rector, Willlum M Cary Eq, of
Alexandria, Va. lo Mite Florence L,, daughtar of PF
Portanholmer, Bea. uf Tthlea :
HOPE GOODMAN — Ou tho Lith instant, he tha'Ray.
Waran Randolph, Mr. Joha Boos, of Now York elt
and Miss Kata Gocdman, nf Gerwantowa, °
STEWART—STREET.—April 11, by Roe. Joho. Thomp-
son, st the parsonage of Braud street MLB. Charehy No.
Vid Corinttan street, Mr George Stomrart to Miss Eaully,
Bireet, both of Philadelphia, ~

DIED.

RTEEL.—On the 17th instant, Mury 8, wife of John
B Bieet, nad daughter of the iis Jonu Graatf, formerly
of Lapcaster. Ps.

DER POUDY'=O0 the moraine of tbo 17th tostant,
Hueoah Donwoody, in (he OL year of horaze,

SIMPSOS,—On tho 17th jorlaot, Caroline M. Simpson,
wife of Ephraim R. Simpson, In (bo ssa year of her ao

BASLE! —Suddvoly, oa the 9h foslact, (0 cstop. near
Falmouth. Ya, Jobo Easter, of Cumpagy’ I. Naxh (Cora
Exchange) Reglment PV, ta tbo ith year of bly aus, >
TIERHIN “oa the Yi {meant, Haunah a, wile of

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Inthe Mh
‘MOOR!

AYNE—On the 12th just., Huson Swayne, Ml. D,,
Sear of his age,

HE 70e Ghe TSS instant, Aloxinder Moore, tn

med year of hin ago
MMERUSTAN ota thle city, on the aftersoae of thigh,
suriant Aisaveth Pelps, daoyr of Suaos aad Mary
rruiman. io the ath yeat of her age
A GAINES —Died inesimp, at Balle Plain, Va. Pebroary

iret Lienteoant Samuel B. aloes, qnurtermastar of
Blo hzist Nechoont P. Vo lu tho 20t year of bs ago.

Weekly Report of Interments.
ravts Orvice, April 18,3853,
Dot! nterinenta im the ily of Pritadelpri
a TORTI tS the Ith af oP 1a8k

‘Werk.—The hospital statistics for the past week
show the following +

ting the vacancy, with the date and cause thereof.
© men raleed by conscription will, no doubt, be

Placed in regiments by themselves, while the’old

Voternna in the Held will be massed together,

Paes
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conatry, 10

The number of deathe. com ared with thr correrpond=
tng woeks 9( 1882 and of last welt, Was na follow

GeoK ending April 19, tee, was ah

Weak endioy Apel TL 1BAh was 251

Malos, 171; Pewles, [124 Boys, 0): Girls, 65
oaths au latergeaty of widiics in thr ety, 18

° 0 Bi sll
te WILLIAM READ, Henieh OBeer.

SHornen's Whar Press,

1863.

BATURDAY, APRIL 2

FORNEY?’S
WHEEEKLT

“wAR PRESS.”

CHANGE OF TERMS.

In announcing the commencement of a new vo-
lume of the War Press, It {8 the publisher's inten-
tion to chow his appreciation of THE GREAT
SUCOESS which the paper haa received, by mak
tog many improvements in its contents, and adding
to its attractivencas by every meana in hia power.
Since the appearance of the first number of this
Paper, on the 16th of November, 1861, its lst of sub-
soribers haa steadily inoreascd, until its weokly olr-
culation {s now

EQUALLED BY BUT FEW PAPERS IN THE
COUNTRY.

Tho War Press will continue to publish, weekly,

ONE OR MORE GOOD ENGRAVINGS,
Dlustrating some important event in the present
struggle to preserve the perpetuity of the Union, or
‘A MAP of a recent Battle.

THE LATEST WAR NEWS
From ail sections of the country, recetved by mail
and telegraph, up to the hour of going to press.

THE EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT

‘Will continue to be conducted as ably aa lt has been
heretofore.

All the Letters of Occasional”
‘That appear during the week in the daily paper
will appear, without curtailment, in the WAR
Press, This feature of the paper has done much
to place it in its present exalted position.

THE LATEST MARKET REPORTS

Will continue to be given, the Philadelphia Cattle,
Money, and Produce Markets receiving more than
onlinary attention.

ORIGINAL TALES AND SKETCHES,
‘Written by the best and most popular authors, the
subjects taken principally from events tranapiring
on the battleficid, are published from week to week.

In addition to the abore department of the paper,
nothing will be neglected that can auld to its intereat,
and make it aoceptable to
THE FARMER, THE MECHANIC, AND

THE MAN OF BUSINESS.

Neither will the LADIES be forgotten. OHOICE
POETRY, USEFUL RECIPES, HINTS ON\THE
TOILET, and HOUSEKEEPING MATTERS,
will sll receive due attention. In short, the WAR
Paess will be made a3 good a Weekly Newspaper

as it tan be made by money and talent, and nothing
‘will be left undone to make St an acceptable weekly
visitor to every loysl man and woman in the
country.

(BB In consequence of the great advance in the price
ofpaper— being over 100 per cent. since the Prospec-
tus for the second Volume was issued—the publisher
is compelled, to ssve himself from heavy pecuniary
Joss, to.change the terma to the following rates:

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@fford very little more than the cost of the paper.
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‘and, also, of adding additional subsoribers from time
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111 SOUTH FOURTH STREET,
PHILADELPHIA, PA.

VALLEY OF THE RIO GRANDE.
We had occasion, some weeks ago, to
point out to the Government the necessity of
taking possession of the valley of the Rio
Grande, From all the information we can
obtain, the population of the yalley are
strongly attached to the Union. This at-
* tachmtient extends, we are convinced, through
all that part of Texas given to the growing
of wheat and the raising of stock—a coun-
try rich in natural resources, and the home
of an intelligent people. As a pastoral peo-
ple, given to their farms and flocks) and dis-
regarding the grosser attractions of/a political
life, they gave to Texas its wealth and sta-
bility, leaving to their haughtier and more
indolent brethren of the South and South-
west, with their slaves and cotton, and their
devotion to Southern interests, the political
management of the State. We have here-
tofore found Texas in a peculiar position.
In times of great danger to the Union, when
the issues were so plainly developed that all
men took part in their discussion, Texas
cast her yote with the most loyal States.
And yet, through her representatives, she
has invariably been in the confidence
ef the extreme South. When Sas Hovs-
mon ran for Governor on the Union
ticket he was triumphantly elected. When
Texes was asked to unite with the South-
ern Confederacy she refused. If the Govern-
went had been strong enough to have
spared a brigade of soldiers two years ago,
Texas would now be an active member of
he Joyal States, But the advantage of
Texas to the Southern Confederacy—her
Tesources, her grain, her seaboard, and,
above all, her connection with Mexico—
made it necessary to adopt violent measures.
Texas Was seized; her Governor was de-
posed, and a creature of JerFExson Davis
placed in the Executive chair. Then came
a series of aggressions which have no
parallel except in down-trodden Eastern
Tennessee. Union men were persecuted,
proscribed, exiled, conscripted, and deprived
Of their homes, and, to ayold death or im-
prisonment, fled to the woods, and now
‘wander homeless and outlawed. When the
ortune of war gave us New Orleans, and our
biecksde sealed the poris of the seaboard,

‘Teaas was drained to supply the hungry | resolution of the

FORNEY’S WAR PRESS.—PHILADELPHIA, SATURDAY, APRIL

25,

1863.

been sustained by Texas, tnd it is by no

means improbable that the occupation of
the Rio Grande would. sever the artery that

gives it life und gives strength to the whole
Southwest. y

Apart from any feeling of sympathy for
our Wretched brethren, who live in bondage
und long for the hour of our coming, the
occupation of the Rio Grande would be a
great military triumph. Qne of the first
principles of war is to destroy the enemy's
supplies and out off his communications

He must then surrender or die. We know
that a great part of the contraband trafe of
the South is maintained through Texas.
The Rio Grande is the only boundary be-
tween Texas and Mexico, and it may be
crossed ina fewminutes. On the American
bank of the river is the town of Brownsville,
now held by a regiment of the rebel army.
On the Mexican bank is the ancient town of
Matamoros, The Rio Grande being a free
river, and the highway of a friendly nation,
the United States cannot blockade it. The
French, being at war with Mexico, might
do it, but Lours NaronKon has no desire to
do any parucular injury to the South, and
asa large part of the trade is done by French
merchants through French and English
houses, he has no motive to place an em-
bargo upon what is so profitable to himself.
In New Leon und Coahuila a large contract
for blankets to supply the rebel army is now
being filled, and Matamoros is litle more
than a dépot of the Southern Confederacy.
Guns, caps, ordnance, clothing, and food,
are sent to this place by the Mexicans and
Europeans, and from thence across the river
to Brownsville, where they are exchanged for
cotton, The supplies ate transported to the
Southern armies ; the cotton is placed under
‘a foreign flag and sent to a foreign market.

We know that this exists, and that the
trade between Matamoros and Brownsville
was regular, although not as dangerous as
that between Nassau and Charleston. In
the first case the flag of Mexico, a ntutral
nd friendly nation, is abused ; in the other
case it is the flag of England, another neu-
tral and friendly nation, Admiral WILKEs,
whose energy and faith have gained him the
renown of sharing with General BuTLen
the reproach and detestation of every enemy
of the Republic in Europe, has been en-
deayoring to suppress this trade, and in
doing so has again brought his name into
the international councils of the world. “An
English vessel, called the Peterhoif, was
lately cruising about the Gulf, under sus-
picious circumstances, The Admiral brought
her to and examined her papers. She pur-
ported to be an English merchantman, laden
with merchandise, and bound for Mata-
moros, a port in Mexico. The experience
of Admiral Winxes in English ‘nerchant-
men, laden with merchandise, and bound
for Matamoros, a port in Mexico, had been
so suggestive that he took the responsibility
of seizing the Peterhofl, and sending her
before the Admiralty Court, at Key West.
Tho owners at once complained to the
English Government, and the matter. has
been brought into Parliament. They assert
that the cargo was legitimate, containing
goods generally sent to Mexico, and with
nothing that might sid the military opera-
tions of the South. It is probable that our
zealous Admiral was mistaken. If so, the
Admiralty Court will do the owners of the
Peterhoff justice, and our Government will
make them reparation.

It seems, however, that if our Govern-
ment would only take possession of the val-
ley of the Rio Grande all these troubles
would be ended. The Union men of that
beautiful and fertile region would be pro-
tected ; Secession would be driven against
the Federal bayonets on the Mississippi;
the Salt Lake would no longer supply the
loss of the mines in the Kanawha Valley ;
guns, and caps, and clothing, and stores
would serve no other cause than that of the
Union; Texas would be encouraged to rise
‘against the rebellion as she did in times past,
and Admiral WitKEs would find fewer
English mercbantmen, Jaden with merchan-
dise, and bound for Matamoros, a port in
Mexico. These results would certainly fol-
low the occupation of the Valley of the Rio
Grande, and we think they should receive
the attention of the Government.

MESSAGE OF THE GOVERNOR.
His Excellency the Governor, in a brief
and patriotic message to the Legislature,
announces his intention to retire from the
service of the State at the close of his present
term. This will be surprising news to the
people, although those in the confidence of
the Governor kuew that such has been his
intention for some time. It was the desire
of the loyal people of the State to pay an
appropriate tribute to the fidelity and energy
of the Governor by tendering him a re-
election, but his weak and shattered health
compelled him to decline what would other-
wise have been a most gratifying compli-
ment, and to accept the offer by the President
of a foreign embassy. In making this
announcement, the Goyernor takes occa-
sion to recapitulate the part Pennsylyania
hhas taken in the war. We will do the
Goyernor the justice to say, that he has
told his story with modesty and truth,
His own part in these works has been so
prominent—he has given so much devotion
and energy—he has been so constantly
and unselfishly the friend of the Adminis-
tration—in times of danger he has been
so prompt, that the history of Pennsylvania
and her struggles for the cause is nothing
more than the history of the Goyernor’s
administration. We know that this is a
high compliment, but it is deserved. His
Excellency, in announcing his retirement,
can feel that he has done his duty like a
faithful public servant, and that while pre-
serving the honor and dignity of the State,
he has been loyal and true to the United
States,

STATE SENATORIAL CANVASS.

It is known that we have given the

proper attention of a journalist to the pro-

ceedings growing out of the election of
United States Senator by the expired Legis- |
lature of Pennsylvania, by printing oyery-

thing that has been said and done, We |
have commented, two or three times, ypon

the testimony of Mr. Boyer, who swore

that a certain sum had been offered to him

to yote for General Bn1on Canon for

that office. Beyond this we have been

silent. And a very few words will dispose

of the last phase of this controversy—the

House instructing the

institute criminal proceedings against certain
parties alleged to be concerned injthe bribery
of the nforesaid Boyer, A mére absolute
furee than this same tesolutiogy never was
enacted. Its nuthors and adydeates kn
itcould amount tonothing, Well did the dis-
linguished Judge Cramrneys, of Lancaster,
exchiim, alter the passage of the resolution,
that ‘it was the most infamous yioldtion of
the Constitution of which H® had ever
heard."” Genefal Cameron is a citizen of
Pennsylvania, We has passed through a
long and honorable career. He has endured
many privations and encountered many
animosities in his onward march. He bas
made many friends and many foes. And in
his last relation to public questions—in his
ultra loyalty and decided patnotism—he
may haye lost some of the first for a brief
period, ‘and increased the latter. The De:
mocratic leaders, in their new zeal for purity
and integrity, have only shown that they
persecute one of our own eminent sons, iD
order that they may honor one of the
lowest of their own school. We think
General CAstenon will outlive all his
opponents, He is remembered by thou-
sands whom he has befriended, and his
name is linked with measures‘thit no ca-
lumny can cyer destroy, “These words are
spoken of one who is now without office or
power, and who, in recent yebrs, accom-
plished his sdyancement over out own aspi-
rations; but we would rather to-day be the
friend of a loyal Pennsylvanian, like S™10N
Camenon, than the associate of those who
hide their sympathy with Treason, and their
knowledge of the corruptions of the Rebel-
lion, under their malignant attacks upon
good and fearless public servants,

LESSONS IN THE SCIENCE OF WAR.

Tt may seem to show a heartless, culcula-
ting spirit, but nevertheless we find our-
selyes earnestly discussing the scientific re-
sults of the battle ot Charleston, before the
smoke has fairly rolled away. Mr. Errce-
son, With a personal interest in the subject,
hag hurried into print with an excusable
anxiety to give us his theories about the per-
formance of the iron-clads, their compara-
tive invulnerability, ond the truths we have
learned from their ill-success, "Atcording
to Mr, Enresson our repulse :popsesses all
the substantial results of a victory.- We
are advised to thank the commanders of the
iron-clads for their ineffectual gallantry,
and to look upon Admiral DuPont's attack
as the most important eyent in naval
history; and we are consoled with the in-
formation that ‘the history of war may. be

costly preparations, kept up at such vast
expenditures, as Charleston now requires to
ward off the blow from half a dgzeu small
vessels, manned, provisioned, and coiled at
less cost than an ordinary first-class screw
ship.”

It is natural that Mr. Eriosson should
feel a deep interest in gn invention which
has given him world-wide notoriety, and
may give himenduring fame. The people
who believe in nothing but success may not
be disposed to find in the coldsentences of
this distinguished engineer the ‘omifort that
4 triumphant despatch from Admiral Du-
vont would hnye occasioned ; (but, at the
same time, it iss well for us tO look over
the reports of the great fight, and see what
light we have obtained from our discomfi-
ture. Perhaps we shall profit in the end by
our stern experiences that we bave met and
borne so philosophically ; for the lessons
they teach us in the science of war-will have
an application and a value as-fong as our
liberties are worth struggling for, and our
national existence is worth preserving fron
decay. Such of these lessons as immedi-
ntely suggest themselves we shall proceed
to record.

In the first place, the engagement in
Oharleston harbor establishes beyond ques-
tion the superiority of the turretiprinciple in
the construction of iron-clad vessels-of-war.
The first test of the Monitor jm Hampton
Roads was satisfactory as far as it went,
but it was not as rigid as scientific men could
haye desired, and left several important
problems to be solved. Could the monitors
approach sufficiently close to Fort Sumpter
to engage it with any hope of breaching its
walls, and yet withstand the terrific con-
centric fire to which they must be exposed
from Cummings’ Point, Fort Wagner, Fort
Moultrie, and battery Beauregard ’ This was
the question which Admiral DuronT was
called upon to solve. He wasicalled upon
to undertake one of the most important and
hazardous experiments that could be ima-
gined; yet, undeterred by the risks to which
his individual reputation must necessarily
be exposed, or by a sense of the vast re-
sponsibility resting on his efforis, he accept-
ed the trust unfalteringly, ‘How satisfactorily
it-was discharged any report of the engage-
ment will reveal. The monitors were order-
ed to approach within six or eight hundred
yards of Sumpter. They approached within
four hundred yards, maintained their posi-
tions for two hours, breached the northcast-
ern fuce of the fort badly, aad, night haying
set in, retired leisurely, without having been
penetrated through any portion of their tron-
platéng by the three thousand shot and shell
rained down upon them from innumerable
batteries. Never before wasthe impenetra-
bility of armor-plating exhibited so clearly
or by such a fearful test ; and now it is es-
tablished that the monitors are unequalled
by any war-vessels aflont in their capacity
to resist an enemy’s fire,

It has been demonstrated, in the second
place, that offensively the monitors are
more effective than mailed vessels of a
larger class, the armaments being equal;
while a single one of them could accom-
plish ns much work asa whole armnda of
wooden ships. Thus, the seven monitors,
mounting but fourteen guns in all, did more
damage to Fort Sumpter.than the Ironsides,
with her cighteen guns. ‘They did not get
aground ; they could moyé around readily
in whatever direction they chose, selecting
the most eligible points of attack ; and they
could approach some eight hundred yards
nearer to Fort Sumpter, thus virtually si-
lencing hor barbette guns, and exposing her
quite as much as themselyes -to the fire of
the land batteries. Yet they have defects
which require to be remedied. They should
be proyided with a more efficient arma-
ment, 80 arranged that a shot might be fired
from each gun at least once in every five
minutes, If they had fired a total of three
hundred rounds of ammunition, in ‘Tues-
day's engagement, instead of a meagre

fammy of the Southwest. Vicksburg has | Governor to direct the Attorney General to | hundred and fifty, it ia quite possible that

searched in vain for an instance of such,

Fort Sumpter would have been in our pos-
session to-da Again, the bolts by which
their armor is attached to the frame need
to be fastened in some more. effectual man-
ner, so that they will not ‘fly’! so readily:

Neurly every casualty in the late engage-
ment was due to this cause, ‘These are de-
fects that nay be easily remedied ; but until
remedied, they detract from the offensive
powers of the vessels.

‘Another Jesson tnugbt us by the recon-
noissance of Admiral Duront is this: no
number of land batteries, however formi-
Gable or judiciously located; can guard o
harbor against the entrance of an iron-clad
vessel, It was not the terrific fire of the
rebel works that prevented our reaching
Charleston, and postponed the downfull of
that city. The bright sheets of flnme,
the dense billows of smoke, the deafening
roars of the artillery, so vividly described
by sentimental correspondents, actually
amounted to nothing. A historical drama
yas enacting, and o little thunder ayas
necessary for due stage effect ; but that was
not the main difficulty. It was the tripje
line of obstructions thrown across the chan-
nel from Fort Sumpter to Moultrie, that
rendered our retirement a matter of neces-
sity. If we could have passed these ob-
stacles, the forts would have been ours
without the firing of another gun, a8 was
the case at New Orleans, Failing to pass
them, we might have battered every fort to
brick-dust, and would still have failed to
capture Obarleston.

From this fact the inference is clearly de-
rivable that the expedition was lacking in the
main essential to success—viz; an appliance
for the removal of the harbor obstructions.
Monthé ago such an appliance was invented
by Captain Errcssox, experimented with
in New York barbor, and found capable of
accomplishing the desired purpose. The
main feature of it was an immense torpedo,
filled with six hundred pounds of powder,
suspended from a raft, to be attached to the
bow of the vessel. The commanders of
the iron-clads, one and all, declined to test
its utility in the attack of Tuesday, mainly
for the reason that it was ‘an experiment.”
True, Commander Roporns, of the Wee-

hawken, allowed the raft to be attacbed to
his vessel, but refused to coun}
Ther

ance the
the

torpedo in any shape.
barbor obstructions w ed away,
and the fleet was compelled to retire. Mr.
Enicsson’s torpedo-remoyer may or may
not be capable of removing the obstructions
in Charleston harbor, but some such device
ig necessary to accomplish this before the
fleet will be able to take the rebel strong-
hold. The ditficulty is not insurmountable,
‘or even extraordinary, and there is certainly
enough inventive genius in the country t
overcome it, if proper inducements are of-
fered to inventors by the Navy Department.

Finally, we arrive atthe deduction that
conical steel-pointed shot are the most for-
midable projectiles that can be brought to
bear against iron-clads; and it seems that
our English friends have just arrived ‘at a
similar conclusion. We learn by the Lon-
don Zimes of the 30th ult. that a few da
previously experiments were made at Shoe-
Duryness with the Armstrong steel shot
against a box target faced with four-aud-a-
half-inch plates, and lined iuside with teak
and an iron skin, like the Warrior. A coni-
cal-headed shot of this kind, of which the
cone was small and sharp, witha very full
shoulder, weighing 65 Ibs, and propelled by
only 14 lbs of powder, smashed its cone
completely through the plate, damaging the
backing and breaking a rib behind—the
greatest result that has ever been obtained with
40 lighta shot and so small a charge. It was
eyideut that only the very full form of the
shoulder beneath the cone prevented the
whole going completely through the target.
A second shot of the same kind, the same
weight, and fired with the same charge,
struck the upper plate of the target on an
uninjured part, and about 12 inches from its
edge. It completely smashed away a piece
about 15 inches deep by 18 or 20 wide,
splintering and ripping up the backing
behind, One piece of the plate, of con-
siderable weight, was carried far behind the
target, where it fell with the shot itself.
The Times adds: ‘The trial seemed to
show that to pierce the plates almost as
youch depends upon the metal of the pro-
jectile as upon either the gun or charge of
powder which fires it. Certainly, the result
seemed quite to upset the notion that a flat-
headed shot is essentially necessary to punch
armor plates, and, on the other hand, to
strengthen the belief that the best form for
this purpose may, after all, and with proper
metal, be found to be the conical form
adopted by Sir Wintrax ARsSTRONG.””
‘There is every reason to believe that these
were the shot fired from Forts Moultrie and
Beauregard with such effect, sinking the
Keokuk and temporarily crippling the mo-
nitors, when round shot and shell would
have proved harmléss against the latter,

‘These seem to be the main questions of
scientific interest that have been settled con-
clusively by the late reconnoissance in force
—for stich it was in fact, whether mainly
undertaken as such or not. Numerous other
points of information, scarcely less valuable,
haye been gained, but they have been enu-
merated by the special correspondent of Tre
Press, who ,accompanied the expedition,
and it is needless to repeat them. Collec-
tively, they serve to establish the fact that
Charleston can be taken by the monitor ficet
alone, if means of removing the harbor ob-
structions are provided and employed. In
fact, we do not so much need guns, and
large fleets and extensiye armies, as a little
of the inventive genius;of the country di-
rected in the right channel, and) earnestly
applied,

THE ENGLISH QUESTION.
We are very far from wishing to haye’a
quarrel with England ; but we certainly do
not intend to be intimidated by her threats
or deceived by her clamors, The language
of Lord PALMERSTON, in the House of Com-
mons, was not what a just and generous
Goyernment should haye used towards a
friendly nation, Instead of making an ex-
planation or a reparation of England's sin-
gular conduct in the case of the Alabama,
he very coolly informed us that the laws of
England were so framed that there could be
no remedy. When Mr. Forsrar alluded

to the prompt action of this Government in
1955, in the case of the Russian privateer
supposed to be fitting out in New York, he
was told that in America, where the laws
are so flimsy and easily broken, such a

thing might occur, but it could never
take place in England, Mr, Sewanp might
very properly reply, that when the laws
of England cannot proyent Englishmen
from doing us injury, we should . take
the most effective means of preventing
that injury. The case 6f the supposed Rus.
sian privateer is so yery suggestive, and
makes such a shameful contrast to the con-

story as we find it iustrated by a writer in
the Inquirer newspaper. In the beginning
of the Russian war the,course of the Ameri-
can Government was explicitly defined by
Mr. Marcy, our Secretary of State, in a
letter to Mr. Craspron, the British minis-
ter: “The undersigned," wrote Mr. Mancy,
‘is directed by the President'to state to her
Majesty's minister to this Government, that
the United States, while claiming the full
enjoyment of their rightsas a neutral Power,
will observe the strictest neutrality towards
each and all the belligerents. The laws of
this country impose severe restrictions, not
only upon its own citizens, but upon all per.
sons who may be residents within the Uni-
ted States, against equipping privateers for
the purpose of taking part in a foreign war.
It is not apprehended that there will be any
attempt to violate the laws, but should the
just expectation of the President be disap-
pointed, he will not fail in his duty to use
all the powes with which he is invested to
enforce obedience to them.’’ This was
frank, just, and sincere. In a short time
the American Government gave a proof of
their sincerity,

‘A rpmor came to the ears of Sir Jos
Crampton, the British minister, that a
bark was being fitted ont in New York
harbor for the purpose of aiding the cause of
Russia, He brought the matter to the no-
tice of the Secretary of State, just gs Mr.
ADAMS brought the case of the Alabama to
the notice of the Earl Russet, her Ma-
jesty’s Minister for Foreign Affairs. Instead
of asking the British Minister to find e
dence,. go before a court and make affidavits,
the matter Was at once placed in the hands

the same day, Mr, Cusmne telegraphed to
New: York, directing the District Attor-
ney to take informa secute,
This was at once done, and the y 1 wad
Seized. In four hours the American Go.

vernment did what England asked thirty-
five days to do, and finally did not accom
plish. The resultof Mr. Marcy's ene
the prompt seizure of the presumed priva-
teer. The result of Earl Rosseiv’s delay—his
petulance, suspicion, and coldne
in the numerous wrecks of American
now drifting about the ocean, and the terror
that has been spread through our commerce.
We have received A great injury—Engl
has been the cause of it, and she mus
us teparation, We are a friendly peop!
we are a ation—and we have certain ti
if we do not ptain certain courte: a
England has invaded those rights—treated
us with injustice and bad faith. It may be
that she is taking adyan' of our we
ness and our troubles with the South. In the
day of our strength, however, we suall
‘judge ns we bave been judged. ,

PALMERSTON'S WAR POLICY.

Lord Pausrerston's insolént and con-
temptuous mention of this country, particu-
larly in his recent Parliamentary speech in
reply to Mr. Forster, on the subject of
ships being built in England to sail as pi-
rates under the Confederate ftag, can have
only one motive, and that about the mean-
est, because the most selfish, that any public
man ever was or ever could be influenced
by. Through life, a political Vicar of Bray,
though he has shifted his opinions and
changed sides a dozen times, he bas ever
been true and consistent to his own interest.
Faithless to every party that trusted him—
even now, a pretended Liberal, he opposes
Parliamentary Reform and sneers at the
Ballot as ‘‘un-English””—PALMenston has
always been faithful to himself /

Starting in public life at the early age of
twenty-one, not only an Irish peer, which
ranks lowest among British dignities, but
algo almost a pauper peer, Lord Pause:
ston played his cards’ so well that in less
than two years he was in office, as Junior
Lord of the Admiralty, Two years later
(in 1809), he succeeded CasTLEREAGH in
the responsible office of Secretary of War.
He clung to this lucrative office during all
the changes of the following twenty years.
He held it throughout the Percival Adminis.
tration, through the long Liverpool Castle-
reagh Administration (1812-27) which fol-
lowed; during Canyrno’s brief premier-
ship (April to August, 1827); during the
brief Ministry of Lord Gopertem (August,
1837, to January, 1828), and for some time
during the Administration of the Duke of
WeLiseros. From June, 1828, to Novem-
ver, 1830, he was out of office” Inthe timethat
has followed, covering nearly thirty-three
years, PALMERSTON has been’ twenty-eight
in office—as Foreign Secretary, as Home
Secretary, a8 Prime Minister. In fifty-six
years he has been over fifty in office. This
js what Lord PAusersToN bas always
worked for, intrigued for, ratted for, bullied
for. For a long time the emoluments of
office were of high importance to an almost
landless lord. He has been enriched by
his marriage, in “1839, with a wealthy
widow, but still dotes upon office, not now
to give him his daily bread (as it once did),
but because station and the exercise of
power, little less than sovereign, haye be-
come things of necessity to him.

Parasenston has twice held the office of
Premier—from March, 1855, to February,
1858, and from June, 1859, to the present
time. In his first reign he was good tem-
pered, amiable, tolerant, conciliatory; in his
second he has been sarcastic, ill-natured,
exacting, overbearing, and insolent. The
infirmities of age (PauMenston is in his
seyenty-ninth year), and the wear and tear
of half a century’s public labors are press-
ing heavily on him, and eyen his best
friends admit to each other, ‘with no ut-
terance saye the shrug or sigh,’ that he is
not the man he was, His fretfulness, ca-
price, and overbearing manner, have lost
him many followers in Parliament since his
second assumption of the highest office. He
can exclaim, with Macsera, “the Thanes
fly from me! Nearly every Parliamentary
election during the last two years has gone
against him. At this moment a debate upon
any great question might end in a defeat of
the Goyernment. He is kept in oflice only
by the votes of the Irish members, and their
support isa mere reedtolean on. Either

duct of the English, that we may recall the /It i:

this year or next
probably take- place.

general election will
PALMERSTON desires
that the new Parliament shall be clected
under the excitement of some popular cry.
Therefore, he endearora to excite England
against the United States.

We take this to be the secret cause of
Lord PALMERsTON’s \wstatesmanlike, we
had almost written ungentlemanly conduct,
“most tolerable and not to be en-
dured” that an English Premier shall pre-
sume to speak of an United States Ambas-
sador as ‘the agent ofa foreign Power.”
Yet it is thus that, lately in the House of
Commons, Lord PAtaensTon spoke of Mr.
Apams, the accredited Minister from this
country to the Queen of England. Sup-
pose Mr. SEWARD were to describe Lord
Lyons and M. Mercrer as the mere
‘agents’? of England and France, what a
howl would be raised against him in the
Times and Montteur! But Mr. Sewanp is
incapable of using such ¢ontemptuous Ian-
guage—the plain republican is polite and
courteous, the “noble Lord’ js wilfully
saucy and uncivil.

In 1861, on the affair of the Trent, Pat-
MERSTON was within almost a hair's breadth
of involving England in a war with this
country. It is notorious that Lord RussELL
and himself bebayed in an infamous manner
by keeping to themeelves (taking only Baron
Rornsemup, of the ,Stock Exchange,
into their confidence,) Mr. Szwanp’s de-
spatch, intimating that Mason and SLrpELL
Would be given up ifasked for by England.
There was no reason why that intimation,
which would baye calmed public feeling in
England, at once, should not haye been pro-
claimed on the house. PALMERSTON
and RcssEv1 cushioned it for over a fort-
night, and their respective journulists were
instructed to asseverate, in che most solemn
manner, that no such despatch as Mr. Sew-
anp's had been received in England. During
that fortnight, PArstensTon’s preparations
for war proceeded with the utmost earnest-
ness, precisely as if a contest hetween the

two nations was inevitable.

‘The feeling of the British people, we firm-
ly deli is favorable to these “United
States. If it ever became lukewarm, surely

it was quickencd by that noble and humane
generosity that despatched such timely and
g cotton-
ancashire. Will the reci-
pients of that charity, or any of their fellow-
where, turn round to smite the
hands that fed them? Surely not. But, as
every one knows, the millions of England
haye no voice in public. A
omprising a few thousand peers, politi-
cians, placemen, and millionaires, govern the
thirty million inhabitants of the British
lands, Chiefamong these usurping thousands
ands Henry Joun Tempe, Viscount
ERSTON.

His aim is to continue at the head of this
oligarchy until his dying day. To venture
on a General Election without a popular
cry for the country, without something to
excite the partisan passions of the multi-
tude, would bea hazardous experiment for
PALMERSTON, seeing that,just now, he can
garcely count upon a working gasjority
either in the Lords or the Commons, » He is
a man Who, to retain office, would’ not
scruple to plunge England into a war with
the United States. With his known inge-
nuity he will easily make, if he cannot find,
a pretext for strife :

‘Some watchword for the ght

Must vindicate the wrong and warp the right ;
Religion, freedom, vengeance—what you will,

A word's enough to ralse mankind to kill;

Some factlous phrase by cunning caught and apread,
That gullt may reign, sod wolves and worms be fed.)

It will require ingenious engineering, we
frankly inform our readers, to avoid hostili-
ties with England, it, Patsterstox once
believes that a war betiyeen the two nations
would help his own-interests. If he could
only get up a war before the General Elec-
tion, he might calculate on being allowed
to remain in office to carry the contest on.
This might be characterized as unchristian.
What of that? at his adyanced time of life,
close on his eightieth year, the hoary politi-
cian, we may be sure, thinks very little of
nity, but a great deal, as
usual, of his own interest. He would be
well pleased tif he could provoke us to
taking the initiative, and plungihg into awar
with England. Failing this, he will him-
self discover some casus belli, Of couree,
the English oligarchy believe that an Anglo-
American war would benefit “the so-called
Southern Confederation.””. At the same
time, it certainly would give lively sntisfac-
tion to Napovzon. England's difficulty is
France's delight, as well as Ireland's oppor-
tunity. What cares Pataerston, so loag
as it keeps him in office ?

Tue New York World, with the instinct
ofa Democrat of the modern school, takes
occasion to pay a compliment to General
BeavREoaRD. “By his’ genius and pro-
fessional skill,”” says the charitable World,
“he has erected batteries in Charleston
harbor that would sink all the wooden fleets
in the’world, did they come under fire, and
he has succeeded, moreover, in driving back
in disgrace the most impenetrable iron-clad
fleet afloat.” We might suggest to the
World the propriety of saying a word or two
in reference to Duront, TuRNER, WORDEN,
RutNp, and the other gallant men who hay
shed immortal honor upon our navy by
their bravery and prowess. Words like
these might encourage the loya? heart; and,
as that is the last thing of which the World
would be guilty, a compliment to BEAURE-
GARD is consistent and appropriate.

Ix New York the true and the false De-
mocragy are being divided. The friends of
the Union repudinte those who are against
it, and as an evidence of the sincerity of this
feeling, we see the New York Leader, a
Democratic newspaper of New York, de-
nounces Mr. Woop for his recent speech,
and rejects all further fellowship with him.
Not long since, the Leader was one of Mr,
Woon's warmest friends—now he is de-
nounced. His speech is characterized as an
attempt on Mr. Woop’s part to ‘' subvert
the regular Democratic platform, and substi-
tute for it a miserable erection of his own.””
He is irreverently spoken of as 8 ‘restless
and ambitious demagogue,” ands informed
that ‘‘his attempts to thrust his nostrums
down the throat of the party are impotent
and absurd.””

i
Tux estate of the Inte Stephen A. Douglas, in
Chioago, haa been inventoried at seven hundred
thousand dollars, but there are encumbrances upon
it equal to ita appraised value. The exoeutors repors
that there ia uo personal property.

FORNEY’S WAR PRESS.--PHILADELPHIA, SATURDAY APRIL 25,

1863.

ARMY OF THE POTOMAC,

ETTER FROM MEDIOAL DERECTOR LET-
LETTERMAN TO GENERAL HOOKER.

‘The following are extracts from a letter addressed
to General Hooker by Dr. J. Letterman, Medical
Director Army of the Potomac, showlog the sanitary
condition of that army:

«“Thave the honor to submit for the information
ofthe commanding gencral the enclored roport on.
the elcknees of the army. Tho payer marked ‘A’
showa the whole number of sick in this army to bey
fn the 2th of March ultimo, 10,777. The corps ex:
hibiting the greatcat ratio of sick are thoee in which.
there ie the greatest number of new regimente.
Thus, the Firat corps, haying a ratio of 90.02 per
1,000,"hag, according to the dats iis this office, eigh-
teen ‘sew’ and twenty-one old regiment
‘Tho Sixth corps, with a ratio of 46.16 per 1,000,
has only four new regimente and thirty old reel:
mente. ‘The ratio of sick for the whole army ie 67.61
per 1,000, When it 4m considered that since the ist
Of February lees than cight huodred sick have been
gent beyonil the linea of the arniy (excepting thoee
Teloneipg to the Ninth compe) which was ordered
way.) the tatio of alck Ja-smiall.

tithe paper marked 'B,? taken from the wonthly
sick reports for January and February, affords more
explicit information regarding the Bealth of the

my.
"Heft enown that all the more serious dieearen to
which troope Ln camp are Iable, and especially thoee
which depend upoo neclect of sanitary precautions
and bad dict, have decreaged in a marked degree
during the month of Februnty. ‘This paper ebows.
that during this month bia oid fever decreased,
twenty-leht per cent, and diarrtics thirty-two per
cent.; and I have reason to expect that the reporte
for March (which have not yet been recelyed) will
exhibit a continued decrease.

“Numerous reports made to this office refer to the
general improvement in the health, tone, and vigor
‘of thoee who are not reported eick—an improvement
which tgures wil not exhibit, but which is appa-
reot to officers whose attention fe directed to the
health of the men. This favorable state of the health
‘of the army, and the decrease in the severity of the
casce of disease, inin a great messure to benttributed
to the improvement in the diet of the men, com-
menced about the first of February, by the lreue of
fresh bread aod fresh vegetables, Which has caused
the disappearance of the syimptome of scun hat
in January began to avsume m serioua azpect
‘throughout the army ; to the Increased attention to
sanitary regulations both in camp and hospitals fo
the more gencral practice of cooking by companice:
snd to the zeal and energy displayed by the medical
directors of corps, and the medical oificers of thie
army generally, {heuleating the absolute neccesity
Of dlesalinees aud nttentlon to the precautions {cr
insuring the bealth of troops, which the united ex-
perience of the armics of Europe and our own has
thorn to be indiepensable to their etlicienoy.

“7 have uncessingly luspresecd upon all officera of
this department tho primary importance of oarrying
{nto effect exnitary measures to preven! alckness,
and my suggestions and directions have been carried
out with an Intelligence and zeal which it allorda
me great eatiefaction to bring to the notice of the
commaniing genersl,

“It aleo atlorde me pleasure to state that the me
ical officers have found the malitary conmasders,
With very few exceptions, willing to carry Into ef
feet theif euggeations to this end.

\“ Much, very much, still remains to be done; but
the carnestnersand ability of the medical officers of
this army, to which I have alluded, and to which
niuch of te Improvement in thebealth of the troops
ie duc, give the aseurance that, eo far as depends
Upon thelr exertions, nothing will be leit undone to
raiee to a still higher degree the etfective etreagth of
the Army of the Potomac.

RATIO OF BIC

NESS ON MARCH

Command,

First Corpe.
Second Corps
Third Corps
Finh Corps.
Sixth Corps
Eleventh Corps
Twelfth Corp:
Qayalry..
Artillery Reeerve
Patrick's Brizade.
Engineer Brigade—

‘New York Infantry. :
* THE REBEL ADMIRAL BUCHANAN.

The following authentic coples of letters addressed
by Captain Franklin Buchansn, « renegade eon of

‘aryixnd, formerly an officer In’ our naval service,
but now an sdmiral of the rebel navy, will, we ap
prehend, ect at rest the reporte 60 industriously cir
culnted by bia {riende aud admirers that he never ro-
quested to be reinstated :

“Navy Yanp, WAsninoroy,

“April 22, 1851,
\ His Excellency the President:
«Sin: I respectfully resign my commission as a
captain in the United States navy.
“Reavectfully, slr, your obedient servant,
“BRANKLIN BUOHANAN.”

“Tue Rest,’ SEAR EASTON, Md.
“May 4, 1861.
“Sin: If his Excellency the President has not
aecepted my resignation as n captain in the Navy of
the United Staten, 1 respectfully nak 10 recall it.
‘The cireumetances which induced me, very, very r@
ludantly, to tender my resignation, no longer exist,
. and I capnot voluntarily withdraw from a service ia
which [have passed nearly forty-seven years of my
We in the faithful performance of my duty, ar the
records of the Navy Department will prove, Iam
Pendpfor serve a
Respectfully, sir, your obedient eervant,
s)“'PRANKLIN BUOHANAN.
“Hon, Gideo:
‘Washington.

Welles, Secretary of the Navy,

LETTER FROM “OLD IRONSIDES.”
Rear Admiral Stewart hns'nddressed the follow-
ing letter to Hon. George Opdyke, President of the

* New York Loyal Union League, aud mayorof New
‘York city:

Borpesrows, N. J.y April 16.

Guxtiewes: Thad tho honor'to receive yeater-
day your kind favitation to attend ap aniversary:
mare Aseemblage. at Madieon Square, in the elty of
New York, on Monday, the 201! tn the after-
noon. =

S@bject throughout the past changeable reason of
the yenr to palnful attacks of neuralgia, I must ne-
cesearily avoid all exposure, which might subject
me to any Increase of its painful attacks ; otherwise
it would atford me great pleasure to attend the as
‘eemblare, and participate in the honorable and patrl-
otic proccedings, ko Intcrestiog to every iriengof the
Ualon. Twould gladiy unite with every particips-
tor in ‘the benefits of the clorious Constitutiog, de-
vised, establithed, and bequenthed to us, through
the patriot efforts nod ‘sacrifices of our glorious
fathers, that we and our posterity might enjoy fore
ever our own free Government, founded on the basin+
of the Ingest Iberty peesible, to be exercised by n
virtuous aud iatelligent people in pursuit of welfare
and bappinear.

‘Accept, gentienien, my thanks for your kind jay’
tation, a6 Well na also my regrets for Sonbiilty to
attend, :

Tam your much obliged, and very retpeetful, obedi-
cnt servant, CHAS. STEWART,

STATES 1 REBELLION.
AN ADDRESS FROM JEFFERSON DAVIS.

To the Peopl: of the Confederate States :

FrLtow CovxrnyMex: In compltance with the
request of Congrres, contained in the resolutions
passed on the fourth day of the present month, I in-
voke yourattention to the preeent condition and
future prospects of our country, and to the duties
which pat jotiem impoacs an ue Ail during this grest
strug fe for our homes and our liberties, These re-
aolutions are in the following language,

‘Here follow sundry resolutions paseed by the
rl Meals requesting Mr. Davie to issue an ad-
ree. :

Fully concurring in the views thus expreased by
Congrees, 1 contidently appeal to your love of coun
try for ald in carrying into effect the recommenda-
‘Uonayof your Senators and Representatives. We
have reached the close of the second year of the wat,
and may point with just pride to the history of our
young Confederacy. Alone, unaided, we have met
Bad overthrown the most formidable combinations
of naval and railitary armaments that the lust of
conquest ever gathered together for the conquest of
B free people.” We began this struggle without «
single gua allont, while the resources of our enemy.
enabled them to gather flcete which, sccording to
their official List, published in Ausust Ihat, conaleted
of four hundred and thirty-seven veseels. neasuring
eight hundred and forty thoueand and eighty-six
tons; and carrying three thoueand snd twent:
guns, yet we hove captured, sunk, or destroyed a
umber of theee vessels, Including two large frigates
nd one atesin aloop-of-wwar, whilo four of thelr cap
tured steam gunboats are now Ln our possession, Ad-
ding to the atrength of our little navy, which Is ra-
pidly gaining in numberaand effictenc’

To oppose invading forces, composed of levics
which hinve already exceeded thirteen hundred
thoueand men, we had no reeourcea but the un-
conquerable yalor of a people determined to be
free} and we were £0 destitute of military supplica
that teas of thousands of our cltizens were reluct-
antly refused adinissfon Into the service from our
inability to furnish them arme, while, for many
months, the continuation of some of our strongholia
owed their esfety chielly to a careful concealment of
the fact that we were without 4 supply of powder
for,our cannon.

‘Your devotion and patriotism have triumphed
over all these obstscled, and called into existence
the munitions of war, the clothing, and the sub-
mistence, which bave enabled our goliiers to tIlus
trate thelr valor on numerous battlefields, and to
infilct crushing defenta on succesnive armies, each of
which our arrogant foe fondly imagined to be in-
vinelble.

The contrast between our past and present con-
dition in well calculated to inspire full confidence in
‘the triumph of our art Atno previous period of
the war have our forces been #0 numerous, so well
organized, and so thoroughly disciplined, armed,
acd equipped, ge at present. ‘The eeason'of high
‘water, on which our enemies relied to enable their.
fleets of guaboats to penctrate into our country and
devastate our homes, ts {ast pat eine away; yetour
strongholds on the His: upd still bid defiance to
the foe, and months of costly preparation for thelr
reduction have been speat io vain, Disaster has
been the result of thetr every ellort to turn or storm

ickaburg and Port Hudson, aa well as every al
Oneur batteries on the ited veg, the Tallahatchlo,
fnd other navigable streams. Within a few weeks
the falling waters and the increasing heats of sum-
mer will complete thelr discomfiture, and compel
thelr baffled sud defeated forces to the abandonment
of expeditions on which was based their chief hope

yet ended, apd that we are alll) confronted by powe
erful armfca and threstencd: by numerous fleets, and
that the Government that controle those fleets nnd
armies je driven to the most deaperateettort to etlvct
the unholy purpose in which it hae thus far been de
ented. It will use its utmost energy to avert thie
Impending doom, eo fully merited. by the Atrocities
Ithas committed, the savage barbarities which It
hns encournged, nnd the crowning attempt to excite
# tervile population to the magenere of Our wives,
Gur daughters, and our helpless children, With euct
A contest belore us there ta but one danger which
the wovernment of your eholce regards with appre
henalon j snd to avert thin danger i nppeala ‘To the
hever-falling patflotiam and epirit which you. have
exhibited olnce the beginalng of the War.

The very unfavorable teacon, the protracted
droughts of last yenr, reduced the harvest on which
we depend far below an average yield, nnd. the de
Uiclenoy Was, unfortunately, still more marked Inthe
northern part of our Confeacracy, where eupplica
Were epecially needed for the army. If, through n
confidence iu an early pence, which’ may prove de-
lusive, our fielde should now be devoted to the pro
Yuction of cotton and tobacco, instead of gealn nud
live atock, and other articles neccesary for the sub-
sintence of the people snd. army, the conscquences
tay prove serious, not digaatroue, capectnily should
this present ceneon prove ne unfavorable as the Inst.
Nour country, theretote, appeals to you to Iay aale
all thought of gain and to devote yourselves to te
uring your Ubertieg, without witch these gains
would be valueless. It ie true that the wheat hare
Veat In the more southern States, which will be
gathered next month, promiees” an abundant
yield; but even if this promise be fulfilled,
the Aificultice of transportation, enhanced Aas
it has been by an unusually rainy winter, will
caure enibarrasemente in military operations and
sutferings among the people, should the cropa in the
mniddle ‘and southern portione of the Contederacy
prove deficient. But po uncasinces need be felt 1a
Fegard to a mere supply of bread for the men,
1 le for the large amount of corm ani forage re-
Gulred in the ral of live stocky and the euppice
of the animals ueed in military operations, too bulky
for distant transportation, and in them the de-
ficiency of the last harvest was mostly felt. Let
your flelda be devoted exclusively to the production
Of corn, onte, Denne, potaloee nod other food for man
‘and beast; let corn be sowed broadcast for fodder In
Ammediate proximity to railroadg, rivera and canale,
and let all your efforts be directed to the prompt
supply of theee article In the dietiicta where Our
armies are operating. You will thus add greatly 10
thelr efficiency, and furnish the meane without
which It is Impractleable to make those prompt and
active movements which have hitherto atricken ter
ror into our enemies and secured our mort brillinut
triumphs,

Having thue placed before you, my countrymen,
the rearons for the esti made an you for aid in euje
plying the wants of the coming year, Ladd 9 {ew
Words of appeal In behalf of the brave soldiers now
confronting your enemies, and to whom your Go
yernment is Unable to furoteh all the comforte they
torichly merit. The supply of ical for the army te
deficient. ‘This deticleney 18 only. tempornrs, for
mencures have been adopted which will, It 1s be-
Meved, soon enable us to restore the full rations;
but that ration is: now reduced at times to one halt
the usual quantity in some of our armies. It is
knowa that the supply of meat throughout the couas
Iry In suitictent for the eupport of all; but the dle-
tances are #0 great, the condition of the ronda has
been 29 ad during, the five ‘months of "winter
weather through which we have just passed, nnd
the attempt of groveling specuintors, to. fore
stall the market and make money out of the
Mfe blood of our defenders have ‘to much
iniluenced the withdrawal from sale of the
surplus in the hands of the producers, that
the Government has been unable to gather full
supplies. The Sceretary of Wat has prepared A
plan, which le appended to this address, by the ald
of which, or come similar means to be adopted by
yourselves, you can assist ithe officers of the Go-
Vernment In’ the purchase of the corn, the bacon,
the pork, and the beet known to exiet in Inrg
quantities in diflerent parts of the country... Even
iC the surplua be less than believed, is it not a bit-
ter snd humiliating reflection that those who re
main at home, eecure from hardship and protected
from danger, should be ia the enjoyment. of
abundance, and that thelr slaves alco should have
‘8 full supply of food, while thelr sons, brothers,
husbands, and fathers are atioted in the rations on
which their health and efficleney depend!

Entertaining no fear that you will either mlecon-
struc the motivee of this address or fail to reepond
to the call of patriotism, I have placed the facts fully
and frankly before you.” Let us all unite In the per
formance of our duty, each In his aphere, and with
concerted, persistent, and well-directed effort, there
seems little reseon to doubt that, under the blees-
ings of Him to whom we look for guidance, and who
hae been to us our shield and strength,’ we ehall

Intsin the eoverclgnty and Independence of the
nfederato States, and transmit to our posterity
the heritage bequeathed to un by our fathers.

JEFFERSON DAVIS,
. Exgcuriva Orriog, Rroumonn, April 10, 1863.

GEN. BEAUREGARD TO THE TROOPS,

Heamecartens Drpantanst op Sori CAROLINA,
GEOKOTA ASD FLORIDA, CHARLESTON, 8. C,

‘ApH,
GENERAL ORDERS No. ss,

‘The commanding Keneral_ x gratified to have to an-
nounce to the troop: the followiag joint, resolatioas,
Bnsninously adopted by the Legistatare of the Stato of
weet hesolced. Tpat the General Assemibl

* Hesolved,, That the General Assembly reposes on-
bounded contgente te ibe ability ane aeill ar ine ewe
Bunding general of this department, and the cournee
dnd patsietivis of bis brave voldjers: with the. blessiog
ot Gol. to defend var beloved eityy and to beat back out
Tindicilve foes

P"Resolead, That bis Excellency the Governor be tn:
sracjed to comigunicute this csolatian to Gear Beanre-
re

Soldiers! the esex of yourconutrymen are now turned
upon yon op therve of the second wonteetenry_of the
Th'ol April, Isai, when the Fovereleutyyor the Sinte of
South Catoliia was triemphaatly. vindicated within tho
Larbor whlch we aro pow to defend. ‘The. buppy teenes
ofthe action on the ith Ipetnutsthe etraodedy riddled
\ereek ofthe iron-malled Keakuk—her bated condja-
tore foreed to retire beyoud the range of our guns, hava
Ineplred coeddence i the couatry that our olimote
neces will bo eoumplete.

tio

(tietal) JOHN M. OTEY, A AG.

THE FIGHT AT WILLIAMSBURG.
(Prom the Kicbmond Examiner, ApALS.1

We get some particnines of the fight at Willlamsbare
(hrongh » gentleman who par leipated (h the aifat

On the ulght of (he J0th the th V relnia Regiment,
Colowet Tubb, was sent to the roar of Fort Makeuder.
Athy break of day ext 1 edushed upoa the
cavalry. ©. Wi The attack was s.
Fplen did He destroyed ‘thy enemy» whole
cap. commissary and hospital stores, ood su lmmcueo
Maonat of ides Killing « large uutuber
gr horees. Tho eneiay Wise sea pretty,
Five of thew were killed,

Tue

sick pa:
Tabb made
nut the locs of « maa—oaly one

Silicer aod privsto woanded Fort Mageader. ls im:
Lvprely eheogtuened by mow redouble nnd itle-pits
ud the enemy budat least five thoueaud mea to defend
ity but, ike Por, thoy did not luok well Co tuele rear
‘The taums wriaked thele veureanes oa Williamsburg.
nd riciled the tote for nvev three hours. ‘Thoukh shat
Hi fell a overy ‘direction, fortunately savao of

v ‘only loss buluy, Guy uf thd rel
Tery hme kills of

Some of car forces are just out of Williamsburg, on the

ridges commanding the city, on which we huve statlon=
ts ies ofartillors. OE troops ary bu aplew
did condition, «nd gre anxtounly awalting thy eaemy to
show ble Iaud

THE BATILE OF SOMERSET.

{From the Richimood Bxatntuer, April 16.)

Frow nemenaper notices which lave from the totime
appeatrd, the Mopresslou bus been Indneed, that Gea
Berens recont ald lato Kentucky” reeulted in o divas:
ter “Thatsach Is far from balog the fect will appear
frum the following Drier but uutheutle wccJuut Ut the
Mhote expeditloa:

Brigsiller Geceral Pexram was ordered by General
Jouuston to proceed with lw brigade, uomborlag sino:
lug unter Siteen Loodred en, toro the eeatre of the
rate uf Reatucky ty collect beet eattd for the support

my St Toilabome, General Peyrain tele te

orbood of Raoxvilte, eroseed the. Cumberlaad

‘ond procecded to Danville, 4a Boyle couutyy Ia the
entre of (bo Stile, “In Danvilly wero seven reRi=
Incits of Yaukees with twelve pieces of artillery.
ese Wore nt oncs attacked, #nd,alter alittle resistance,
drivew out of the town und porsued across the Kemtucky
river to withla fourtega. miles’ of Lexingtou, Having
collected eeyen Lundred cattle, Gea. Pegram ttarted on
bis returo, driving the cattleatead, and baving divided
Listroopeloto three bodies, Who Wereto Proceed by peatale
lol roa te provent surprise.” On reachiny Somerset,
he received nformation that the eoemy, with over:
hulng numbers, was In pursuit, tod that the Com:
jand Was ap ewolleg by a freshet as to Inuch delay
crossing of thy cattle. "Ib this eonjancture, he de:
mnlved to gurback nd meet the enemy, od hy’ retard
K bis advadee to give ns much time 1 possible for the
transportation of the cattle across the Comberlaud with
tix huudred mea, He met theouemy, three thourand
Strong, a fow miles ont of Somerset. After severe en:
kagemout of esyeral hours’ duritiog. ho was forced. t
kive way, hut retreated ia good order, hod clected. ble
eecape actos tho river: Of the seven hnudred cattle
with which he had slaried froin Dauville. he brought
Use buudred and thirty-seven eafely acrors the river,

Is logs in killed, wounded, and prisoners was one hun
dred und Bitty.

FROM FREDERICKSBURG,
(Corriepondence of tho Richmond Examiner,
Fubpeaweanond, Apdl Ut

‘The milltsry condition hers has Lesa withone incident
oriaterest Gntit Sunday poteyen a rumor rippled the
quiet enrfaco of thosluation., It wits then roported that
the enemy wer on the march toward tho Uaited Sistas
Mino Ferd. ‘Thu conclaslon wasbased apou observations
nado withta thele Haus from elevated points on thie side
of tho river but your correspondent huseeeu all (hat wits

suy WIth eavtainty that wo considerable

force his as yettaken that direction, wo ur three resi
if jufeutry, as many Meld batteries, und 8 single
reaiment of cavalry, comprised tho moremont $n cur
upmediato trot Tie destiuation aud design aro un-
Koown, but eo fur from the general Indications within
th euetny’s lines elgnitying « forward movement, they
import the contrary, and for eoveral nights the sonnde
of Working parties eogaged tu the construction of defen
slyo fortifications ou, tho opposite side of the hills havo
been distinctly audible. Laut uigbt slyoul lights were
gleaming on the Falmouth Helgble, ead the railway
{rains wero in motion atl tnorning To: uight wo have
tho same Interestiog diay

tis to bo Roped that Hooker will

innoxlously awalted by the Army of Nerthera Viry
who uow regard the deatraci

snge as a military necosatty, and

is near Its termination, they desire to give It 4 brillivat
coup de grace. Our saccenses at Vicksburg ani

vj more to be eald save that tho
condition of the troops here Js all that cag ba dest
‘This yas Inspection day for General Barkedale's com:
mand, and there was not a condemoed tusket in the
wholé brinde. ‘The mon throughoat this depirtmoat
wore nover In such good health, equipment, and effl-
clezey as al preent.

= ON FORT SOMPTER—CASUALTIES
THE ATTACK ON FORT snacpt

(From the Charleston Morcary, April 11.)

‘Thoqueation ts redaced to tho relative powors of de-
sfruction of the forts, and the assifling Peo. It tna
duertion cf plack and Forvivorsbip io 8 rquaro sin I~

fe in effecting our subjugation.
ofWe must not forgot, however, that the war Ls not

Ut for Victory. Trou-clud fleets can ba destrayed
BP Mell ‘as Yorta.” Fore Sumplers although aomeichat

nite, to-day ts, 1c betlene, aa. strong as it, reas tchen
Ereedt’eguin Wo denn thal if tho attack Io renewed
snGefores {ud therw fv good. rash "to Bellowe It wil
te,)'tho aie Moaltorsett‘aod the Lrouaidos will come

oat tho defeated arty, with sora Tesalte “Chap
thos gUained Ih ‘thelr first Attetnpt. | Nowe er
pond, The woeny fred bout ehglity shote—mostly We
foch and steel-palnted shiells—at, Fort Sumpter, This
gellinste wax mado from Sullivan's Inland.“ borly only
stock the work. Oue 10ich an was tomnporarily: die-
Abled by webot.” Oar eolombind, of wild patecru, Worst,

Ore? Nach rifled gun diewoaatel by rece, wod ond xan
Was dlaibled fore fore moments by fracture of tp 0
Natlug sere Uiropult reculle Nut person tec) kit led
Tn Bint Simpler from pny cause, Serenat Fautkener,
ad prisuter Chop lin, Stuix, snd Peun, Cowopany
twerelujured byes tin'wernt biieke, the ten fog (7a:
Sno the raiapart by a large eliotof tho cuetys A
Gntinmer boys Ahrean wag stracke ob tho lad by tho
explorion of w shell mgur tbe parade.” A negro Jaborce
Nas alin woaded. Ally we Teneo, Are dole well, aud
ieee te’ad danger of estos nb ur i(o. "Tue wonnded
Wero drese-d. by Surgeon. Moure, uf the post, oud Vent
Cot octie weay (Oa hospital In tbe clty, whore thoy new
Female, “The yeilueatal eneiga war’ plareed wear tha
Eetitfo bya tall Phe Confederate Hk was aleoDerlo=
red

‘cre eas bot oan eumalty at Fort Moulirlo, A anat
from oneot the Monitors cut ‘sway ths Housel? afew
fretakowe te natapety nod. tbe stall fe) "upon elvan
Tnsbys Commay #'Eleet S.C trexalar) latnntry. Ine
Aictinx Ipluries from ahe eects of whleh Ue sonn dled.
Theearrison of Fert Moulteie it would not be prom to
fuusberate. It eonelste of the First South Usvolipa
Grequlae) FuGutry. Thy choeeet renee into. white the
hems ventured veas estimated by the nents of tie post

ataboot 130 yards the Mag-stho has besa replaced,
sod ax norather portion of the fart pustsived any darungd
whatever during the ugngement, the post Is In excel-

lent condition to joln in auother'trisl of strength with
the turreted wrinada.

Battery bee, on Fulllvan's Island, was tho reciplent of
cceaslonal shots from the opcmny, Duterk net Io any
Way injured, ror were thero any casoalex amonget the
men

MISCELLANEOU 7

Orricons rx RicwMosn.—Tho slarred and epanletted

catty were rearce yestorday tuthe capital ns fealt ou
Stfseason, end tbe thoromehieree, robbed af thele ealatys
Tooke deserted nad dalle. Thecaged was non, ox plain
Ua) anorder bod een logorotented by the. Seerelary
SC War, throws Geveral Wiuder, directing a Inventae
Ty to bo taken stall aiieers in: Richoyond withoat pees
Weston. and the arrest of sil found "play Tox traane
from tho ermy. ‘The order caured An yinnicore, deal of
fawterlug swoog the Weus nyd faueyrnlilatre kldey
nnd theresras an tinmedinte “stousihtog™ of rexlnien:
tala on the part of soma of thet,

Duriog Monday and yo-torday Cartain Maccohbin's
fores overhanied between thtee aod fourbundrel oflew
and hastened thelr retura to thelr respective posts of
daly, The trderie Being watered Wits, more Gian
sunt Imparitality.—Wlohmond Exaratners Apri W.

ARRIVAL, OF SUPPLIES FROM BERMUDA,

Canuestox. April 18 —A eteam-liparrived thisiaorn-
oc froin Hermida with a cargo ofsrmy equipments, ke,
forthe Goveruuent

RELIGIOUS.

Anciuisnior Hyowes.—Arebbishop Hughes has
published a reply to the statement of the Dubuque
Herald, that the prelato had turacd War Democrat,
nd was "favoring the now conscription Inw and all
othog outrageous micasures of this Administration ;”
but that ‘Jp pollticr he 18 of no more consequence
than the humblest cltizen.” ‘The Archbishop says It
a conscription Iaw had been put In force twenty
months ago at the North, as it was at the South,
the resuit would be of more humane consequences
to both seetiong than they are today. As for the
statemént that he ir of no more Smportance in poll
tlea than the humbleat oltizen, Mr. Hughes saya
that “the Archbishop of Nes York, i( be were to
employ, even for twenty-four hours, his fofluence in
what the world calla polltice, could make a decper
sensation than Mr. Maboog and the Dubuque
Herald could effect in twepty-four years." The
Influence of the Archbiehop ir undoubtedly poten:
tial, and it fs an hovor to him that he has chorea to
exert it on the right slde In the preeent struggle be-
tween patriots nod traitors.

In anawer to the above retort by the Arebbishop,
Mr, Maboay publishes the followlog card in the cur-
rent number of the Boston Plot?

New Yor, April 7, 1863.

Archbishop Hughes is entirelymlstaken in aesume
Ing, ne be does io the Herald of thia morning, that L
wrote the paragraph tu the Dubuque Herold of April
2, which has offended him, nod to which be has taken
such just exceptions in his card. I wns ae mich
paloed at the appesrance in the Herald of the para-
Sraph to which he ajgudes av he was justly offended.

). A. MAHONY,

The Pilot adds =

IC Mr. Mahony {820 ‘much pained”? as he pro-
feases to be, let him show repentance by dismlesing
the ecribe who occuptes hie editorial chair, aud who
ns so yulgarly assailed the Archbishop of New
York.

Prorosrp Nw Version or TH: Psatma.—The
Presbytery of Philadelpbia, of the United Preaby-
terian Church, have memorialized the General A
sembly of that Church to take early measures for
furnishing the church with a new version of the
Pealme In metro. They also. {avof havtog- the’
Pealms, in prose, chanted iu their congregations, and
In their memorial say #'that they sro singtig a ver
sion now in which they are compelled to violate the
untvereally acknowledged rules of rhythm, accent,
and pronunciation.” The Presbyterian of Inst week,
apenkiog of this contemplated change, expresses the
hope that, in accomplishing it, there may be such
consultation among the various Presbyterian bodies:
as will make the change acceptable to all, nnd thus.
aselat In bringing thece various tribes Into closer
upton,

WortHLessness oF DeATH Bep RerentANce —
The Rev. Albert Barnes in «a sermon at dle chureh
on Washincton Square, delivered last Sucday eveo-
ing, gave It asthe result of forty-yeare? observation
In the pastoralomice, that “be had not met with a
Aingle Instance of sick-bed mpentance which, upon
the recovery of the Individual, turned out to be pe-
outoe.” That which satlefled him of the genuine
ness af the dylog thief’s repentance, he continued,
“waa net what he enfd,but the teatimony of Ove
who could penetrate bencath the surface and know
what we never can—the reality of man’s prefes
lon."

Tue AsteRIcAN Suspay Scnoor Uxtox,—The
committee on mireions of the American Suaday
‘Schoo! Union is out with an appeal to its friends for
feeletance, in which the frulta of the pnat year'é
operations sre footed up aa follows: New schools
organized where there were none, 860; terchora en-
Msted fa the service, 6,227; number of children gath-
ered into the schools, 65,000, During this time they
havo aldo visited 3,361 schoole, which contained
nearly 260,009 children ; they have also visited! 16,609
familles ; 00, to school unnble to purchaee, given
more than $5,060 worth of the Soslefy's publications,

Tux Rev. Joun ©. Besa, whom most of our
readera will remember ag the originator, eo far ae
any man could be éald to have been so, of the Dally
Union Noonday Prayer Meetlog, in this elty, in the
autumao of 1857, has recently been called to become
the pastor of the Old School Presbyterian Chureh at
Carlisle, Pa., where he 18 soon to be ordained and
fostalled. He has been preachiog, for this congre
gation for some time, and at hie last communion
eleven persons wore added to its membership.

GeN. McOLELLan mas JoiNeD TI Oneren.—
Among those who united with the Rev? Dr. Adaine?
(Presbyterian) Church, on Madison Square, New
York, at theirlate communion, was Gen. George B.
MeClelian, He joined onconfeesion of faith, Oa the
same occasion bls mother-in-law and alster tn-lavy.
Mrs, Marcy and daughter, were admitted by letter,
The scencis said to bave been witnessed by a large
and deeply-interested congregation.

KeNsiNoToN PResnYTERIAN Onorom.—This
chureb, under the pastoral care of the Rev. Wa. 0,
Johnson, has recently paid off a debt of nearly four
thousand dollars, releasing the church property
from all debt. The church ja aleo Prospering io
spiritual thinga, as la judged from the fact that
twenty-one perrons were recelyed {nto its membere
ship at the last communion,

SpuRaxos!s Coutxge.<Tho popular Eoglieh di-
vine, Mr, Spurgeon, has under Wis supervieion a
college, containiog some filty students, who are set to
preaching ss soon ns they enter the institution, on the
principle that the tongue power, 60 far na 4 preacher
{s concerned, la above any other power. The theo-
logical tutor of this Institution ts a Pedo-Baptiat,

AMEWIOAN Bin-® Sootety.—Tho floavolal year
of the American Bible Society haz just closed. By
ite officers It 1s characterized na a year of great pros-
perity. The receipts for the year amounted to $422,
588, ‘The whole issues of the year wore 1,257,249
volumes of Bibles, Testaments, and parts of the
Bible.

‘Tie Gunenat, AsseMncy of the Old School Pres-
byterian Church in the United States will hold its
next meeting in the Firat Presbyterian Cburch, in
the city of Peoria, Illinois, on Thursday, the Qlet of
May, and will be opened with a sermon by the Rey.
Charles Beatty, D. D., Mowerator of the last Aszem-
bly.

Bavtist,—The pews in the Firat Baptist Church,
1n Hartford, Connecticgt, have juat been rented for
the year, atan advance of more than a thousand
dollars over the amount of any former year,

Linenat Girr.—A few members of the First
Presbyterian Congregatian, of Syracuse, lately aur
prised thelr pastor by presenting to hima puree of
eighteen hundred dollare.

Tue Rey. Fatiren Terry, the Catholic priest of
Ottawa, hae incurred the batred of ceriatn of bis pa

ratfoners for it cturing them for eeveral Suadaya on
the right of negroes to walk the atreata peaceably,

and atating that as the human race has one common
origin, If one of there negro sseailante should chance
to get to heaven, he might be gragtly surprised at
finding a negioenint occupying aifgher place than
bimeelf.

Romue.—The accounts of the Holy Father's health,
sayen Catholic contemporary, continue good. On
the 16th of March he held a secret coneistory, in
which the following dignitaries of the Ohurch were
‘appointed to the rank of Oardinale: The Patriarch
of Venice; the Archbishop of Seville; Monsignor
de Luca, Nunelo Apostolic at Vienna; Mousignor
Rizzarl, Secretary of the Coneregation of Bishops;
Moneigoor Pentini, another Roman Prelate; Dom
Pitrs, 8 French Benedictine; and Dom Guidi, of
Bologna. After au Allocution, the Pope nominated.
twenty-six Archbléhops nnd Bishops, among whom
were the Archbishop of Paris, and’ the Bishop of
Nanoy.

FATE or A Metnomiet Cnonon i SAN: FRAN-
c1eco.—A_ San’ Francleco corrcepondent of the
Christian Instructor gives the following aa the pie=
rent enmd lion pe the beautlful church edifice that

D

the membefa had crected in that city: “A few
weeks since Meir church was old or rented. Pass-
Ing by last week, T noticed that ils handanme little

steeple had been'taken dawn, A partition divided
the church into two rooms, one of which was &
carpeater-shop and the other a whieky-shop.””

CITY INTELLIGENCE.
Tue History oF a Reoment—TrE
O1eT PENNSYLVANIA VOLONTEENS IN AND OUT
oy BATTL¥.—No complete record of a volunteer re-
giment from its formation and orgaulzation bas, az
far na we Know, yet appeared In any of the pub-
Me printe.” Such a history cannot be without inte-
rest a8 showing the development of military acieace
among men, Who, ashort tlne ago, were uoacquaint-
ed with the use of arme, while It furnishes an evl-
dence of the bravery, valor, and patriotism of the
Union soldier, We have recelved a long communi
cation in reference to the lat Pennsylvania Volun-
teers, aud would gladly publish tt entire did epace
permit,

This regimont, we are (oformed, was organized in
Harrisburg, Pa., on the tet day of August, 1561, by
companies Tecrulted under the ausplece of Col.
H, Kippeyapd at the call of the President reached
‘WaphingtonJor ite defence on the 2id September,

It was oflicered as follows : Colonel, 0. H. Rippey 5
Meutenant ealonel, George O. Spear; major, George
P. Smith j adjutant, W. Gibson Miller; quarter:
ter, B. We Baldwin; urgeon, R. M. tindie;
sistant surgéon, A. J. Hew, Compauy A, Cap!
Crepe, Lieutenants Pollock and Brady; Company
B, O4ptsin, dtedenbac, Licutenante. Scott. aud
Brown; Company ©, Oaptain Daweon, Licutenanta
Dilworth and Rhodes; Company I), Capt. Dilley,
Licutenants Ellis and Taylor; Company B, Captain
Hay, Licutensots Crawford and Mel
Company F, Captain Bryeop, Lieutenanta
Rippey ; Company G, Captain Crosby, Lieutenants
Haleman and Dawaon; Company H, Captaln Orr,
LicuteanntoGreene and Wileon ; Company 1, Oapt!
Mindel, Lieutenants Morlan and Jones ; Company
XK, Captain Gerard, Lieuteoants Hager and Beaitz$
sergeant major, W. F. Glenn; quartermast
geant, We H. Rodgers; commissary eergeant,
€. Atinory hogpital stetard, Jf Nekadden $

tile.

The regiment, fully armed nnd equipped, eccond
to but felv dn ytacticxl movements, aud to hone Io
Gizcipline, eplrita, enthusiasm, Ad. earestuces,
started on the 10th of March with the * Army of the
Potomac, across the Uhaln Bridge, townrds Ma-
naeeas,, The enemy having evacuated that strong:
hold the army,retraced Ita steps, nnd the regiment,
after a sqjourn'of a day at Chain Beluge, retraed 10
Camp Sinton, whore tt remsined buta short tlie,
and then marched to Alexandrin, where {t embark
ed (or Fortress Monroe to take part in the eveatlul
Pehiosular eampaten,

Our cowespondent then speaks in glowing terms
of the events of thnt march, and shows with what
fortitude Ita_privations were eustalned. “The battle
of FatrQake ta decribed at length. Ta that battle
the division of General Casey was on the left, and
having been to some exteut surprised, although
Ughting hard could not recover, ond fell bhok fa dls
order. The euemy seem to have taken advantage
of a sudden freslist, ovusing a riee in the Chickabo-
miny, to. nttack the amall force which had ae yet
croseed that stream, with the desiga of utterly de-
stroyiog or capturing it. |

The division of Gea, Casey having been driven
from the tleld, the forttines #f theday seemed gloomy
Inthe extreme It wag nt thie time about 12.30 P.
ML, that eight.companids of the Gist Regiment, nvm=
dering nbout 650, rank wad file, with another regi=
ment of theenie brigade, were thrown forward to
check, untll reinforeemeots could come up, the fur
ther progreso of the enemy. In a short time the
other regiment wasseat to another threatened polny,
‘and the sist was left to stem the tide unaided. and,
for two hours, effectually did it. Dariog all thie
me the rebels were not more than from twenty 10
fifty yards distant, often hand to band, and not till the
regiment was completely surrounded, their gallant
Gol. 0. H. Kippey killed, their herolé Licut. Col.
Spear wounded and lying ecngcless upon the ground,
snd thelr Major South taken prisoner, numbere of
the line officers Lilled and wouaded, and about one-
half of the rank and le disabled, did they fall back,
sultiog thelr way-out In equade, nnd retreated in the
direction of the}f camp.

The eatualtige were thought to be greater than
that of any othér reeloent 1a a single battle, eo far
during thé war. There were killed, 83; wounded,

isonere, of Whom $7 were wound:
ed} apd of thoee wounded, 65 were subsequently die-
charged ag permanently disabled.

‘The regiment belog without tield officers. a Hou.
teoact colovel of another regiment was ondertl to
tomporatity command it, and reainined with It until
the return of Colonel Spear, who hal been taken to
Rledmond, wad, on hie recovery from hie dangerous
wound, rejoined the regiment as eoon as exchanged,
For several days after the battle the regiment wa
employed, amid conetant shelling from the enemy,
couetructing brenstworke. :

‘The part which the 6lat took so the retreat to
Harrison’e Landiog ta then eketched.

The nemeabarked for Alexandria on the 26th, are

riving there on the evening of the 30th, and disem-
barked during the night, marched towanls Centre
Ville, passing throuch Fairfax and arriving near
Chantilly, was held in reserve whilst the battle ta
whieb the Jamented Kearney aod Stevens lost thelt
lives was fought, and acted in conjunction with the
brigade, ag “rear guard,” during the retreat of the
poition’ of the ariny that marched 10 Alexandria,
and on the 18th reached Antietam. Her they were
hotly engaged with tho enemy, until four o'clock in
the afternvon of the day of that battle, when the
rebels ent In a flag of truce, ostensibly for the pur-
pose of buryiug their dead, but really, as subsequent
events pruygd, lor the purpose of calnlog time to
Incilltate théir retreat, which they were st that tne
Tapldly. coneuaninatlng.
\ Un the 20:1, marched in the tracks of the retreat-
Ing enemy Ifroush Sharjabury, and on the qext day
the regimestyvas ordered swith the division to Wile
Hamspoct, tg Prevent the enemy, who nad recioased
the river’ there) from further entering Maryland.
The firing Sas prheljlly hetweea the eh urpshoat-
cra of the edemy nnd olir own, taterapecsed ocen-
sionally with,voliles and shell, ‘Che enemy wereheld
at bay, and tetraced their steps the neXt mocalng.

The 23d, the regiment marched to Downavilie,
Md, anu gneamped until the evening of the 18th of
Getdber, engaged Jn picket and guarding fords, when
Ht broke’ camp, and innrched through Willivmsport,
Clear Springectosstng Core Mouutaln, to Hancock,
about four miles from the Pennaylvanin State line!
It was expected, it waa afterwards ascertained, the
rebels would again attempt to cross lato Maryland.
Some crete to orders were received

drum
ajor, D. ©. Connor, and coneleted of 927 rank and

Attaching thd divieion til under command of
Couch to Franklio's corps, formise the Third divi.
sion. The-regiment remained at Hancock until the
24th, when Jt marched back to the old camplog
ground at Downeville, and remained there until the
Stat, when It left and passing through Bakersviicy
Smoketown, and Robreraville, arrived on the lst of
November at Berila ; rematocd until the 3d, whea
the Potouisc was avatn crossed, on pontoons, and
the legiment was agata on the sacred, but muddy,
soll of Virginia, and marching through Philemont
‘nod Union, arrived at Ashby’ Gap on thé 6th. Oo
the 7th marebed to Thoroughfare Gap, and. arrived
there after-night, duriog fall of snow, and imme
diately went.ga picket. On tho 3th, again on the
mareb, and nella at New Baltimore, bud rematoed
until the.tsth, When the march waa ngaln resumed
In the direstionof Fredericksburg, patving through,
Catlett's Statida, and arrived nt Stafford Court
House on thotéth, remaining until December 4th,
when It marchgd ‘With the left grand division to
White Oak Chutah, to take ite position in the great
struggle sbout fo commence between the hostile
forcer,

Oo seen of tho 12th, crossed the Rappa-

hannock, and te 13th marched toa ravine below
Frederickeburg to establish a ploket line and to
hold the ravine, wehich was done under a heavy: are
tlllery tire from'the enemy.

On'the day of the severe atruggle the regiment,
with the brizada was ordered to the support of the
batteries on the left, nod remained there until night,
constantly under artillery and musketry flee. The
night of the 16th the river was snfely recrossed, and
the next worning camp was formed short distance
back of the riven whoro the regiment remained dolag
plcket and other duttes untll the 201 of Jauuary,
1863, whew It xen{a took up the march to assist In
the attack upon the enemy contemplated by Gen,
Burdelde.. ‘That movement, ra te well known, was
‘abandoned, the elements and other causes comblaing
to prevent it, and.on the 23d returned to eamp,

)a the 3d of February tho regiment was detached
by order from headquarters, aud with four others,
battery of light artillery and aquadrone of cavalry,
formed Into a light division, sod encamped near
Helle Pinta landing, on the Potomac creek, where
itnow remains awalting thegood weather and dried
mud to take part in the new duties that time will
develop. {

ProMOTIONS IN THE Sixty-Finst Reor-
MENT PENNSYLVANIA VoLunTeens.—Tho follow-
ing is 8 Uist of promotions tn the Gist Regiment
Pennsylvania Volunteers aince it left for the seat of
war, fn September, 1881 =

Colonel Spear promoted in. place of Colonel 0.
H. Rippers illed in action May 31, 161; Lieut.
Colonel Smith in place of Colonel Spear, promoted
from major; Captaln Dawson to major, vice Major
Sailth, promoted j Surgeon John Riudle appoiated
Jo place of Dr. Ambrose A. Herr, promoted to
another regiment, ond Hospital Steward Jamee A.
McFadden to be assistant surgeon, vice Dr. James
PB. Truland, reaigoed, The latter geatleman had
been added to the medical ataff of the regiment In
pursuance of the order {rom the Governor, allowing:
Uwo assistant surgeons, Sergeant F. M. Brown to

be tirarieuteneat Wo. A, vice Lieut. Soha Pollock,
ldlled in action; Corporal J. N. Price to be eeoond

Hlouteannt Co, A, vice Fieut. GW. Brady, realened
in consequence Of wounds recelved ; Sergeant Eu-
gene Kalrner to be first licutenant of Co. B, vice
‘Licutenaat Scott, killed in netlon; Second. Licute-
pant John Brown deeerted (ence diamtescd), Va-
eaney not yet filled ; Corporal W. O. H. Rob{neon,
promoted to second Neutenant of Go. 0, vlee Lieut.
Charlee H. Rhodes, died of wounds ‘received in
nction, promoted 16 first Meutenant, vice Lieut.
Win. T..'Gold, dlemleeed, promoted ta captain, vice
Capinin Dawéoa, promoted major; First Sergeant
H'0. 0. Omler’ promoted, to recond Meutenant,
vice Lieutenant 0. H. Robiaeon, promoted ; Lieut
tenant W. W. Ellis, promoted captain of Co. D,
vice Butler Diiles, resigned ou account of disability ;
Second Lieut. D. J. Taylor to be firet Meutenant,
vice Ellis, promoted ; Firat Sergeant Smith D. Dean
to be aceond Ieutenant, vico Taylor, promoted.
Tlcut. Crawford, of Co, F, to be cantain, vice Capt:
May, resigned; ‘Second Lieut, McTaughlin to be
lirst Neutenant, vice Crawford, promoted ; Sergeant
Major Glenn ta be second lieutenant, vice McLaugh-
lin, promoted. January 1, 1863, Lieut. Glean pro-
moted to be captain, vice Capt. Crawford, reelgned 5
Quartermaster Sergeant Samuel W. Means to be firs
Hicutenant, vice Henry McLaughlin, deserted, eince
Gistolesed ? Firat Sergeant G. F. Harper to be second
Meutennnt, vice Gleon, promoted ; W. H. Rogers,
quartermaster sergeant,’ promoted fo firat lieutenant
of Co. F, vice Steel, 'realgned in consequence of
wounds récefved ; Sergeant George B. McKee to be
fecond Heutenant, vice tout WW. Mi. Rippey ree
signed; Capt. Bryeon resigned November 27, 1862.
Fscancy not pet diled ; Second Lieut. Wim, Dawson
to be first icutenant of Co, G; vice Haldeman, re-
signed; First Sergeant Vincent P. Donnelly to be
tecond licutennat, vice Dawron, promoted ; Second
Lieut, George W. Wilton to be first Meuteuaat of
Co, 11, vice Lieut. Greene, promoted ; First Sergeant
Charles H. Clausen to be second lieutenant, vice
Wilvon, promoted ; First Licut. Charles S. Greene,
of Co. 'H, to captalucy of Co. I, vieo Mindil, ret
signed ; Second Lieut. Jonea (since remgaed) to be
ret Heutensat, vice Lieut, Alfred Moylan, killed in
nctlon; Firat Sergeant Samuel Long to be second
Heutendat, vice Jones, promoted.

Firat Licut. Louis Hacer to the cnptalncy of Co.
K, vice Capt, Gerard, killed in action; Sergt. Major
David MeLaln to be lieutenant, viec Hager, pro
moted; tat Senet. Augustus Hazér promoted to 24
Heutedant, “vice John Benitz, resigned; Sergt.
Richard Lippincott to be sergeant major, vice Me
Lain, promoted; Sergt, Duddy to be quartermaster's
sergeant, vice Means, promoted; Sergt. Sanders to
bo commissary sergeant, vice Armor, removed.

The regiment bas been much reduced in numbers,
having Jost—killed, 57; missing, never accounted for,
euppored to be killed, 7; died of diseares contrac
fa'the service, 25; discharged on account of wounds,
71; discharged on account of disability, 126; deeorted,
69. Fourteen have been promoted from the ranks,
and 36 recruits have been Fecelved.

The reeimeot numbers at present 661, rank and
files and fleld, atalf, and line officers, H—aggregate,
bss,

A Marntace unpenr Parrtoric Circum-
STANCES.—One evening of last week, a very
Sal}, but « very curious crowd was congtegated 1p
the Immediate vicinity of Fourth and Chestnut
streets. ‘The windowa of a bullding, which, {ndeed,
Jo a8 time-honored ag it 1a nationnl, were lit up with
\nuausl splendor. A earringe barricaded the iron
door of entrance. Pedestrians, light-footed and
Ught-clad, tought’ and found entrance. A clerie
cal character ntrived juet in the nick of time,
sod—what was the meaning of all thiat ML
nlstera snd matrimony so often go together that It
wae an excuse for the paseer-by to presuppose
comething of that nature on this occasion. ‘The pa-
Irlotic niementoes and memorics cluateting around
Unrpenters? Hall are more than mutlcleat apologies
for the transtent notice of the public. ‘The.building
itself wav originally erected for the hall of mecting
of the Soelety of House Osrpentera of Philadelphia,
‘The first Coogrees coneecrated {t to tho purposes of
Liberty. ‘The measures of the Revolutionary wat
Vudied in that assembly, though they may have
grown to fruit elscwhere. Tho relics which line
the walle of this old. tn
Hea whore types yet grace ity architecture,
shallow the spot. Bui marriages likewiee hallow
localities. A marriage occurred there last night.
‘The parties who were the principal partlelpaate on
this exnilarative occasion are understood to be the
deacendants of thore who have n direct and un-
questlonable interest in the well-being of the Inati-
tutlon, The bride fairand maldenly, the bridegroom
Young snd manly, united by thelr Union two famic
ies whose fidelity to the erced of country ly no-
ticeable, if only from the fact of the wedding
ceremony being celebrated in a building with
whoee memory will be united that of free
dom. The attendance was numerous and brie
Want. Any number of compliments were ex-
chaaged, and the Interest of the most curious
Was ‘more than gratified Ly an inapection of
the relies which lined the apartments, When it fe
Added that the otclating pastor la the clergyman of
the old Swedes’ Ohurch, of this elty, it will unquee-
tlonably be granted that nothing was needing to
complete the gratifying character of the ocoagion,
‘The whole sifair went off most happlly. Even out-
siders wore pleased, from the view In. perspective
which they obtained of the national hall where the
rites were performed, oe

ding, the former

Go. Mover or THE RoaNoKe.—A gold
model of the United States Iron-clad frigate Roanoke
wag on exhibition at Bailey's, on Cheatout street, &
fow days since, and attracted considerable attention,
Te was mado by Mr. J.D. Benton, of Wilmington,
Delaware, and Is eighteen inches in length, three

and threceighth inches in width, and a tritle over
two Inches indepth.

There are nineteen ounces of
fourteen-carat gold ueed in the construction. All
the details of turrete, hatches, guns, smoke-
atacke, manropee, Sc, Are insde'to scale, and are
perfect In form,

A musical Instrument is located below the spar
lleck, and when set {a motion the three turrets re-
yolve and the propeller ia worked, and, when placed
in the water, ahe goes ahead In tine style. ‘The mu-
sical arrangement playa three times—"Star Spangled
Banner” “My Mountain Home,” and "Ay Old
Kentucky Home.” The gold used cost over $1,500.

Some of Capt. Ericsson's friends have engaged Nr.
Benton to bulld a gold Monitor battery, the gold in
it to be worth $6,000.

Tue Mitk Busryess.—But few persons
have any ides of the extent of the mUk business In
this city, and of the hoat of men, horsea and wagons
employed in the trade. The trapsportation of mille
Irom Chester county to this olty over the Penna

‘nin Railroad is conducted of x very largo ecale.
‘Vhe average number of gallons daily. at this ecaon
ef the year, 18 $40, all of which is collected between
‘Vhorndale‘and Morgan's Corner. ‘The milk is sent
down. Ja the, early, Parkesburg passenger train,
which brings back the empty caus in the afternoon,
Iris thus served out to customers in this city ina
little ‘over three hours after belng taken from the
cow. The milk ts carried In 20 and 40-quart cans,
the frelyht of which averages one cent on every fen
quarts, “At every station, daily, may be scen & for.
midable array of cana aynlting the arrival of the
cars, In summer time the supply is much larger.
‘At the present rate, thie Would make. three thous
sand hoyshends of milk per annum, The milk re
talls in this city at su aggregate of $00,000 oF $60,000.

Tne Cuame Bru.—There seems to be a
great misapprehension in regard to the military
elim bill bow In the hands of the Governor await-
Ing his aiznature, a to the sum of monoy wien the
Will will disburce, The fact 18 that the DIU Itself has
fixed a Minit to the pay of those who vill become
claimsote under ite provisions, and that it also cuts
ont many who were clalmants before ita passage.
Thue the amount of money which ft will require to
Niquidate the claims to be settled under the bill, wlll
not be large. But suppose the amount was Isrge—if
the claims made are just, the Government will not
hesitate a moment in paying Its honcat indebtedne
The money to be disbursed will not come out of the
Stato Troasury—it must be paid by the United States
authorities.

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to the head. It has stood the test of time, being tho
original HAIR COLORING, and is conafantly tn-
creasing in fayor. Used by both gentlemen and
ladies, It is sold by all respectable dealers, or can
bo procured by them of the commercial agent, D. Sy
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cents and $1. ect-cowsm,

50. 000 AGENTS WANTED |!
,
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75,000 Watches, Chains, Lockets,
BRACELETS, RINGS,
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Worth $100,000,
To be sold for One Dollar each, without re-
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you know what you are to get.

Certificates of nll the various articlea, stating what
each one can have, are first put into eayclopes, and
sealed ; and when ordered, are taken out without re
ganl to choice, andecnt by mail, thus giving alla
fair chance. On receipt of the Certificate, you can
#ce what you can have, and then it ig at your option
to send one dollar and take the article, or not.

In all trageactions by mall we shall charge for for
warding the Certificates, paying postage, and doin
the business, 25 cents each, which must be incloee
when tho Cértiticate {s aent for.

te, and remit 15
With,

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100,000 BARRELS OF THE

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FOR SALE AT 130 SOUTH WHARYES,
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‘This Company, with a capital of 160,000, the most
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A reputation long established, having also the ex-
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of New York, aro prepared to furnish an article,
which 10, without doubt, the CHEAPEST AND VERY
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yield, and ripens the crop from two to three weeks
earlier, at an expenac of from three to four dollars
or ncte with little or no labor. (Also, FIFTY
NS OF BONE TAFEU, being a mixture of bone
and night soll ground fine, at $45 per ton—a superior
article for grain and grace, A pamphlet containing
all necessary information, may be bad’ free, by
dressing 4 letter to the subscriber.
3 JAMES T. FOSTER
Gare oCthe Lodi Manufacturing Company,
mh 2timW* 66 COURTLANDT St., New York

NOTICE. ‘
Mary W. Robinson's use, ) Foreign Attachment

w. Debt, No. 91. April
Frev’k, J. 0. Shuman, f Term, 1881. In Dau-
pps County, Paw |
DAUPHIN COUNTY, SS.
The Commonwealth of Pennsylyanis to the Sheritl
of aid county, Greeting : erat
’e

— command you that you attach Fre
{Suan | acrick 3, 0, Shudien, ate ot your county,

ap 44twe

by all and singular his goods and chattels,
moneya, rights, and credits, lands nod tenements, a8
tise those certain lote of ground, situate in thecity of

Horriaburg, bounded and described as follows
ginning at a corner of South and Sixth streete, thence
Slong Sixth street 1S (cet 6 Inches, to the corner of
lot No. 9; thence along the line ‘thereof 45 fect T
inches, ton four {eet alley; thence nlong eaid
alley 37fect to South atreet, and thence by the line
Of aaid South street 53 feet 7 Inches, to. the place of
beginning. Also, that certain lot to. the southwest
thereof, bounded and described as follows, viz Bo
gidaing nt the corner of South street and A four feet
Ailey, and thence along eald alley. 69 fect, to the cor-
ner of lot No. 13, on aaid alley, and thence slong the
Tine of said lot No. 13, towards Curtla alley, 20 feet
to the Ineof lot No! 12; thence along the_line of
sald lot No.1? to South etroet 0 fect; thence along
the line of Soutk street 20 fect to the place of ber
ginning—being lots Nos, 19 and 11 on the recorded
plan of Henry Buobler, in whose hands or possea-
sion soever the samo may be, So that he bo and ay
pear before our Court of Common Fleas to. be held
at Harrisburg, in nn for sald county, on the fourth
Monday of April nest, thea and there to answer
George Wolf Buchler, ‘administrator of the goods,
Xe, of Henry Buebler, deceased, for the use of Mary
W. Robinson, plalntili; of a plen In debt, And also,
that you sumiuon the aatd defendant so that he be
and Appear before our sald Court at. the da
place sforesald, to answer what shall be. objected
Against him, and abide the judgment of the Court
therein.

Witness the Hon. John J. Pearzon, Prealdent of
our said Court, at Harrlsburg, this 1athday of Mareby
1553. 3.0. YOUNG, Prothonotary.

‘J.D. BOAS, Sheriff:

Sherif’ Office, Harriaburg, Dauphin Co., Pa.
March 16, 188. mh 2-6tW

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For LETTERS of OREDIT and DRAFTS:
On and PASSAGE to and from
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Hosriracs; Avrnor or New Ruias von Ame

PUTATIONS| INVESTOR OP THE PALM ADM,

Leo, ke.

The Inventor will devote fle personal attention
to the Profession at this House, and construct the
PALMER LIMBS, under the New Patents, in ane
tzampled perfection. Thouscnds of these Linke are
Worn, (though few are suspected.) and a galaxy of
gold ond silver medals (60 "Fitet Prizea” won over all
Gemietttion, tn the principal etiee of the world
attests the ‘public value of these inventions
genuine Palmer Limbs have the name of the Insenlor
apized.

‘A HOOK which contains the New Rules far 4
Hons, and full information for persons in want of

sent free.
have been adopted by the

‘The PALMER LIN
A and Navy Surgeons.
ave Y Sue FRANK. PALMER,
Surceon-Artist,

dress
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S—T_1860—X.
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‘They purify, strengthen, and invigorate.
They create’ healthy appetite.
They are sn antidote to change of water and dlot,
‘They overcome eifecta of dissipation and late houra.
‘They strengthen the system and enliven the mind,
They prevent miasmatis and intermittent fevers,
They purify tye breath nnd acidity of the stomach,
‘They eure Dyspepsia and Constipation. — *
‘They cure Dfarrhora, Cholera, and Cholera Morbus,
‘The y cure Liver Complaint and Nervous Headache.
‘They are the beat Bitters in the world, ‘They make
the weak man strong, and are exhausted nature’@
reat restorer. They are made of pure St. Croix
um, the celebrated Calisaya Bark, roots, and herby,
and are taken with the pleasure of a beverage, with=
out regard to age or time of day. Particularly res
commended to delicate persons requiring a geatle
stimulant. Sold by all Grocers, Drugeists, Hotele

WILLIAM M. JONES, Adm’r.
) ap isctw Ebensburg, Cambria Co., Pa.

and Saloons, P. H. DRAKE &'CO,,
ecr-Sm 22 BROADWAY, New York

\ ration are over,

FORNEY’S WAR LARUE 39S Moy eae SATURDAY, APRIL 25, 1863.

POETRY OF THE WAR,

ON3TOJCHARLESTON.
Come, fill yourjglaesce, fellows, |
Ani let the tosat be sped,
A long arlieu to sani and flea
Adieu to Hilton Head!
‘Thus tendorly aud saiiy, boys,
We breathe before we go,
A long adieu to Hilton Hendy
Adiou to Robbers Row.
For Charleston we are bound, my boys,)
For Oharleaton we are bound,
Ob, there's glory in the thought, my boya
And muele io the sound,

To Beautort’s erovea of orange,
Dawluskie'a bowers of balm,
To St. Holena’s clustering flaw
‘And woods of plno and patm'
And to all the Hunting Telands, boys,
Bogirt by waters blue,
‘Thus tenderly this parting night
We broathe 9 last adieu.
For Oharleston, So

On the Wabash proudly flonting, boye,
Duponts proutt penton shines 5
And on will push our tron-clada,
While Worden leads the line
Soon tho cheeswbox tower will bellow, boys,
With a fury that appal
Each utterance echoed by the orash
Of Sumpter'a crumbling walla,
For Oharleston, Sc, p

‘ BiackeDavid" te our captain, boys,
A chief both tried and true,

Who knows the traltora, "hair and bido,””
‘And meane to put them through ;

Full many 4 fight his eyes have acsoned,
‘And this of him we know,

He never turned his back, ihy boys,
‘On either friend or foe.

For Oharleston, &,

So ill your glasees, fellows,
‘And ict the toast be sped,
. Along adieu to alothful calm,
‘Adleu to Hilton Head,
‘Thus tenderly and sally, boyr,
‘We branthe before wo £0,
A last adiewto Hilton Head,
‘Adieu to Robber's Row.
For Charleston we are bound, my boys,
For Charleston we are bound,
On, there's glory in the thought, my boy:
‘Aud music in the sound.
[Port Royal New Sow.

“STONEWALL JACKSON'S WAY."

[The following stanzas were found oa the person
tonewrall Brigade, To
ya

‘of o rebel sergeant of the
sently captured by our troopa neat Winches:

Come, stack arme, men! Pile on the ralls
‘SUr up the campfire bright,
No matter if the canteen fale
We'll make 4 roaring night}
Here Shenandoah brawls slong,
There burly Blue Ridge echoes strong,
To nwell the brigade's rousing song,
‘Of “Stonewall Jackeou'e way.’

We sce him now—the old slouched hat
Gockeed o'er his oye askew

‘The shrewd dry enille—hls speech co pny
So.calm, ao blunt, «0 true.

The" Blue Light Elder” knowa him well;
Saye ho, “that’s Banks—he's fond of shell,

Lord save hie soul!—we'll give him" —well,
That's “Stonewall Jackson's way.

SHence! ground arma! kneel all | capa oi!
‘Old Blue Light'e going to pray 5

Stranglo the fool that dares to scott
Attention! it’s his way!

Appealing from his native sod,

ead of from themselves, When you 4o Lntow
house, {natoad of taking off your bat you take off
your shoes. Yontead of saying John Smith, they
would say Smith John,

Trovanr 4 Paur oy Heaurn.—Were it a mere
extravagance to nak whether some part of the lasal-
fide nail wearinens of life, of which we hear ¢o much
in our day, might be due to lack of mental occupa:
tion on worthy subjects, exciting and repaying s ge-
nerousfenthusiasm, a3 Well a8 to an Overexeroled of
lower ones! whether nn engrossment on matters
which have not substance enough to justify or aatls-
fy the mental grasp, be not nt the rootzol some of
the maladies which aifect our mental convatesconce!
And one who tries it soon finda out how wearying,
how disproportionately exhausting 16 an overdore of
light literature, compared with an equal amount of
time apent on real work. OF this we may be sure,
that the due exercise of the brain—of thonght—1s
‘one of the essential elements of human lie. The
perfect health of « man is not the samo as that of an
ox orahorse. Tho preponderating oapacity of his
nervous parts demanis 4 corresponding life,

Phovenns.—A white glove often conceals a dirty
anil. Tho. remedy for injuries is not to remember
them. Befriend to youreelf, and othera wilt, Go
to the country to hear news of the town, Be nota
baker If your head Is not made of butter. Call mes
cousin but cozentwre not, Faint pratee ia disparage
Bent. Ask tby purse what thou shoulda buy, Zenl
without knowledge In like fire without light. Youth
and white paper soon take an impression, Vows
made In stornia are forgotten In calme, ‘The Oburoh
{a out of temper when charity ts cold and. zeal hot.
Tho ating of repronch ta the truth of it. Eovy shoota
‘At others, and wounde herself. A gooae quill Is more
angerous than a Hon’s claw.

AM Ipta-Rvnwen Voice.—The Parisians are
now admiring the figure of s woman with » Inrgax,
formed of & caoutchouc tube, not indeed 60 sight
Ass human laryox, but which so accurately imi:
tates the human mechantym, that It gives out two
whole octaves with the tone and pitch of a female
voloe. In the higher notes the resemblance to the
human yolce is sald to bo clogo enough to decelve
spy ent, Hitherto all the exhibitionsof speaking ma-
ob{nes have beeneither equesking machines or im-
ssters, but in this one—if we may rely ou the reli
le Cosmas—the actunl timbre of the human voice Is
reproduced, and the figure is made to sing any song
within the compare of two ovtaves, *

PREAH PIEEDS AND WOODS.
Freeh felis aud woods! the Barth's fair face!
God’s footstool mad man’s dwelling place.
Where Heaven lies leaguer, and the Dove

Duely as dew comes from above.

If Eden be on Earth at all,

‘Dia that which we the country oall.—VAuaiax.

FACETLIA.

Buxaones or Dzoonus.—A Highlanders trow-
sere.

A Srnixino!Taovony.—Ts there anything in this
world that oan deat a‘good wife Yea, a bad bua-
band.

Prestion thinks that President Lincoln bns
knocked too many men into “cookeil hata,” aud too
few out of them,

War aro the points of dliterence between the
Prince of Wales, an orphan, a bald bead, and a go-
rills. The Prince ts helr apparent, an Orphan hes
no'er a parent, bald head bas no hairapparent, and
s gorilla has a halry parent,

‘Tits tracedy of “Lear” was once brought out nt
the Standard Theatre, London, durlog s atar” en-
gagement, at very short notice. Thegentleman who
played Gloster managed to say something like the ait-
Thor. until he vame to the scene where his eyes are
put out, and (ien he was obliged to sek permission to
read the reat of hls part. :

Pux.—Strange, Moore, snd Wright,

Pon vpo:

1B forma pauprr to Gol— the notorlous punaters, were ‘on a certain ovoasion
Lay bare thipe arm, stretch forth thy rod, dliniog together, when Moore obeerved
Ament” That's“ Stonewall’s way,” ‘There is but one inave among us, and that's
Strenaot”?
He's in tho saddle now! Fallint woh, no," aéld Weight, “there in ono Moore)”

Steaily | the whole brizade |
Hill's ai the ford, cut of; we'll win
Hia way out, ball and binde.
Woat matter If our abors are wornt
What matter {Cour {eet nro toral
“Quick step | we're with him before dawn 1"
‘That's Stonewall Jackeon’s way !"”

‘The sun's bright lances rout the mista
‘Of morning—and, by George!

Here's Longstreet struggling in the lists,
Hema'd nan ugly gorge.

Pope soil his Yankees, whipped before,
‘Upay'nets and grape !”! hear Stonewall roar
Charge, Stewart ! pay off Asiby'a score,”

Io‘ Stonewall Jackson's way.”

Ah! maiden, wait, and watch and yeara,
For news of Stouewall’s band!

Ab! widow, read with eyes that bura,
That ring upon thy hand,

Ah! wife, sew on, pray on, hope on!

hy life shall not be all forlorn!

Tne foe had better ne'er been bora,

‘That geta in “' Stonewall’s way.”

TABLE TALK.

ConceNTRATION o* Mixv.—For centuries gone
by afew men have been doing all the thinking for
‘We are indebted to Sir Isano Newton

for thoee xclentific researches and discoveries that
0 much to the happiness and wel-
fare of mankind; anda few others, who, by unwa-
thought and close application, have added

'But how few

The great
jornnce.
lence,
with
Out reflecting on the great object of life. The plough-

‘the world.

have contributer

verin;
new links to the chain of knowledge.
have thus distinguished themeelves?
miastes of mankind have been groveling in
‘They have closed their eyes to the light o!
and walked up and down this beautiful eart

maa has turned up the green sod, listened to
Bonga

of birds, and beheld the oddriferous flowers

\ Ay)! hid Strange, that's IPright, fa

Daven, on the night that one of hie plays was
downed, was taking hla walk from the theatre, wheu
he was met by a coxcomb acquaintance, who sald—
“What, Dryden, my boy, upon my soul T feel for
sou, Can there'be anything more shocking toa per-
Zon’a feelings than n damned play?” ‘Yes, elt,"
replied the poet, ''a d—d fool.”

“Twas amused,” writes the London correspon
dent of the Manchester Guardian, ‘at the judgment
on the Prince of Wales, pronounced by that eminent
authority on the value of man, the hunteman of the
Pytebley Hunt, after the Prince’s first appearance
In Northamptonabire, a few days since. He rides
hand, and be rides straight; hol make a good
ing?”

ReoentLy, while the court was in eession at a.
certain town'in New England, the sheritf was atar-
tled by the following mandate from the bench : “Mr.
Sheriti, renovate the fire, as the pedal digits of the
court are becoming frigid. Deaolve frigus ligna foco.
Large reponens.”” “Yes, your honor,” replied the
olficer addressed, adding, aftern moment’s reflection,
"TL believe so."

Durtxe the reign of Bonaparte, when the arrogant
soldiery affected to despize all civilians, whom they,
in their barrack-room slang, termed Peking, Talley-
rand, one day, asked a general officer, *\ What la the
meabing of that word, * Pekin?’ ‘ On,” replied the

‘eneral, "we call all those Pekins who are not mili-
ary. Exactly, anid Talleyrand, “just ae wo
calf all people military who are not civil?”
Jerr Davis, Jn.—'Long Grab’ writes to the
Wilmiagton, N. 0., Journal, ving 8 biography of
Jeff Davis, He eaye “Mr. Davis has four or tive
cnildren; the oldeat—little Jef—ia certainly a ‘bird,’
ifnot a ‘spoiled chicken.’ He is a rare specimen of
a cune Americs, Jr. ; is st home in a row amon;
other little Bore often ‘curses’ out the crowd, ans
generally seta the nursery and whole juveniledom in
an uproar, He can use moro profaaity, turn over

that enamel the eurface of the ferre sina, without | more furniture, torment more cata, and invent more

having his soul thrilled with the beauties of nature.
And in all the different vocations and puraults of
life, men have lived ss though they were not in pos-
session of minds ospable of mensuring the distance

or, with Newton, lovestigating the pro

to planet:

scenes of devilment than all the little boys within
his father's political jurisdiction. Inheriting the
military qualities of bis ancestor, he is skilled {n all
manner of infantry; and i{ they are correct who ssy
old Jeif is theembodiment of self-will and obstinacy,

perties of light and color, or of bottling up the light- | ittio Jeff is certainly a ‘chip of the old block.’

Binge of heaven.
Coxyrerions ov Naroruow.—"T kaow men,’

said Napoleon at St. Helenn to Count de Montho~
lon, “I know men, and I tell you that Jesua isnot | ~
aman! The religion of Ohristisa mystery which
aubsiots by its own force, and proceeds from 4 mind
é find in it a marked
individuality, which originated 4 train of words sud

which is not a human mind.

actlons uaknown before. Jesus is not & philosopher
for his proofs are miracles, and from the first
ciples auored him.

tion

T die before my time,
back to the earth, food for worms.

eternal kingdom of Ohrist, which

‘did wrong to appoint you general !”

Auvixe Weppry)
tovitationt, who Is often the village echoolmsster.
He makee f formal speech before every house, which
ail the people run to hear.

Froomumen to the houweof the bride) where the
reakfast together; after which he makes a speci
to the father and mother, recounting to them all the

noble qualities of the bridegroom, and beseeching
ly away, an he is

‘them to give their daughter willing!
Bure 4 long Ide of happiness Je in afo

fe dis
Alexander, Cxusar, Charlemagne
pnd myself founded empires; But on 'ehat fountla-
(d_ we rest the creations of our genius? Upoa

force. Jesus Christ founded an empire upon love;
‘and at this hour millions of men would die for him!
‘and my body will be given

Such ia the fate

of him who has been called the great Napoleon.
What an nbsaa between my decp inyatery and the
¢ proslatmed,

Joved and adored, aud is extending over the whole
earth!” Turning to General Bertrand, the Emperor
added, "If you do not perceive that Christ is God, L

—An orator is the besrer of

On the morning of the
wedding he accompanies the bridegroom and the

Tax Fare Sex.—

When Eve brought vo to all mankind,
‘Old Adam called her :70-man ;

But when she 1200'd with lovo s0 kind,
He then pronounced her 1200-man.

But now with folly and with pride,
Their husbands” pockets trimming,
The ladles are 60 full of whims,
‘The people call them whim men,

PUNOH,
Nore’ aN Quentes.—What part in the anatomy
of the human frame is a trom-bone!
‘See Bobn’s Standard Library.—Mr. P.
ow much an hour amI entitled to charge for

‘Jetting out” a secret?
[A diioult question, If you keep a aeoret ag sou
woulda hacknoy carriage, for your own benetf, of
course youll let it out as often as possible, If Jtis
Kept for the benefit of others, how oan that object be
gttained by thus letting It but! Consult solic
tor—Mr. P. .

Do Mad Wage” go about at the season of sols

unt
Walt till the time comes. —Mr. P.
Yan I prooure at Mr, Sam’s or any librarian’s 5
box on the esr for the season!
come toS5 Fleet atreet. We'll give you one.—
Mr P.)
‘What is my best remedy for a bad tooth?
Quarrel with n dentiat, then go and have it out
with bim.—Mr. P.)
Which would you say is the most marked town in

Fival omter then “tater tho werds" nad presents Eeplene!
es tho word,” and_ presen a 5
he dank ae ofthe pleture, all the daltes ofthe a ioabamatken Ip Why-sehem- Soar borough, | to
ew porltion, and the virtues of the. bride. Aiter Perel a
Sy Sane CET rae ore! pave dana, Tir ond nner ot gramsa Sell me

musiclans

the Alps.

Oxp Fouks,—We ean but amile when they blow
ns, ond alt Ae far a8 porsible from the fur-
nace registers for fear they should burst, snd start

out the

every time the speaking tubes are used, and regard
the water-plpes as fearful aud wonderful things.
Such things make them feel that thelr day and gene-
‘oven more than the white-beaded
Little grandchildren, aad the silver threads in the
locke of the son or daughter, who was their babs)?
once. Yet there is something bosutiful in thelr slm-
Hiolty—their utter Ignorance of the marvels of city
Fire. “The desr off folks! an long as they are alive
there Js always oa untiring ear for our tales of joy or
trial, a ready excuse for our folbles—there {a always
ome one to Whom We are atill " the children.” —Lie
Mustrated.

Lrew's HArriest Peaton—Kingsley gives hia
evidence on thie disputed point, He thus declares:
‘There is no pleasure that I havo experienced like
@ child's midsummer hollday—the time, I mean,
when two or three of ua used to go away up the
Drook, and take our dinners with us, andcome home
at night tired, dirty, happy, scratched beyond recog-
Rition, with a great nosegay, three little trout, and
‘one shoe, the other having been used fora boat, tll
ft bad gone down with all hands out of soundings,
‘How poor our Derby days, our Greenwich dinners,
our evening parties, where there are pleuty of ice
girls, after that! Depend upon it, aman never ex-

{ences such pleasuresor grief after fourtoen av he
Moen Delore, unless, In ome cases, in ie frat lovee
making, when the sensation ta new to him.”

A Monusest av Notre Dixe.—Tho Count of
Harcourt was ambassador at Viennoa—I eannot
under what reign—when one night his wife, who wi
fn Paris, dreamt that ehe beheld her husband atrug-
gling with Death. The Count was halfway inn.
coflin, and at every efforthe made to get out of tt,
fhe figure of Aman, with a Death's head, puahed

tm violently back, ‘Tho Count died that very night,
and the news arrived in Paris in a few days after,
‘The Countess described her viston to a sculptor, who

aid to have produced it exactly. The lady her
self is luo represented! kneeling, with clasped hands,
‘on the step leading to the upper part of the monu:
ment and all in life-size, and in white marble.

Jaraweax Oppittes.—One great peoullarity of
people is thelr mania for squatting ; they aeem to
everything in thia position, and even when a man
loughing in a field, he looks If he wanted to aquat.
Heir babita in many things seem to be go often ex
etly the oppoalte of ours, that it almoat resolves tt
Into s rule that everything gocs by contraries.
‘When thay cook » goons, instend of putting the
‘ooee on the Ore, they put the fire on the goose , thus

for church,’ amidat prayers, and
Hears, nod good winhea; and to Iceep up her spirits,
eer her way with song.—The Cottayes of

what ja the masculine of Ban-shee!
(Once for all we reply, Ban-Joe.—Mr, P,]

(Telegram recelved from Little Buatington, Statford-
shire, Wednesday morping, March 11.

Tue Day AvTeR TIO WEDDING.—The two hun-
dred school children who, in honor of the Royal mar-
riage, were yesterday regaled with ten, lemonade,
‘and currant-buns, sre as well as can be expected.

Cnunon Ciess—Lalest stale of the Game—White
Blahop attacks black Bishop, lack Bishop declines
move.

Onvxt,.—A Glasgow critie, noticing one of Mr.
Ohnrles Kean’s Shaksperian performances, succeeds
in reaching na intensity of spitefulnesa which 1s not
at all creditable to tho writer as 8 man, a Obriatian,
or a Glaswegian, We reproduce the words only for
the sake of reprobating auch needless bitterness of
sarcasm:

“Tt will suffice to say on this occasion, that the
notor was throughout equal lo himself.”

Asenicax News.—Barnum’s diminutive couple
will probably vislt England this summer, Report
saya that the Thumbs have engaged a couple of Fin-
ger-Stalls at the opera,

Puxow's Cooney Boox.—The Lance! very pro-
petty Antorme the world, In reference to that bumble
but delightful artcle, a meat ple, that it will alwaya
he deleterious, owing to. emanations from the meat,
“unless a hole fe made in it.” Mr. Punch 18 happy
tony that 0 such precaution 48 negicoted. at hte
board, and when his young men haye dined on meat
ple, the Lance! should sec the awful hole made in it.
Wermensee, who drives the Herleo stage, ta
great wag.

There ia'n young woman lying in that tere house
yonder,” anid he to us, a8 wo were riding on the'out-
aide with him Inst summer; “there's a young wo-
man deco a lying there near about 8 month, and
they haveo't buried her yet 1"

‘Why not !” we innocently inquired

Onn she nin’ dead!’ quietly remarked Mr.
Wetherbee, and then tickled the ear of the nigh
leader slightly with his whip.

THE COLENSO DISTUTH,
My dear Colenso—

1

With regret,
We hlerarcha, in conclaye met,

Beg you, most disturbing writer,

‘To take off your colonial miter.

This course We preas upon you Btrongly:

Belleve me, youre moat truly, Losacey,
REPLY,
‘My dear Archbiahop—
To reaiga

That Zulu diocese of mine
‘And own mysolf a hoathen dark
Beoause T'vedoubts about Noah's ark

MODERN ROMANOES,

London Punch is taking off the " Aurara Floyd,"
“No Name," Tangled Skein,”’ So,, school of litern=
ture very amusingly, In the publication, in weekly
parts, of a Tale of the Times," called “"Mokeanna,
or the White Witness.” Itis illustrated in the Pre-
Raphael style, 80 much affected just now, by the
Loudon weeklies, by way of enhancing the Weird
intoreat of these startling tales, aud, of courac, the
grent requisite, a bigamy, is not wanting to make
the satire complete. Hare te « specimen;

Sir Lionel’s carriage was at the door,

“Farewell, mic Bettina,” he sald, pressing his
wifo to hls heart, shall come back when I re-
urn.)

“Tdoubt thee not, Lionel,’ 8 his weeplog In-
dy'a reply, and the coachman, haying fervently em-
braced thé enim but emotionnble butler, ascended to
his seat In the rumble, and the veilcle was soon lost
to view. oO *

Tio girlish figurea, each dressed in a cul de soc, Ap
proached.

“Mamma,” they erfed, “will you oot trust us
now)?!

“Twill,” replied Lady Bettina. "Come, Agueala ;
come, Evelina.” They entered the Brown eR

“Llaten,” sald Lady Bettina, to my Secret. He-
fore I married Sir Lionel T was young And lovely,"

‘The lid of Agaeala’s lovely eye trembled as sho
Jooked towarda her slater. byelina, « proficieat to
the French tongue, murmured “'gammong" in her

eat,
Without noticing their emotion, their mother
proceeded.

“LT wedded one William Barlow, a man beneath
my station in life. Seized with an original idea that
‘my rich brother did not need his money, 1 toduced
Barlow to—to—" she faltered.

Agocsia quickly piearel her delicate band from
‘one lobe of her exquisitely moulded ear to the other.

“Yes,” continued Lady petting, Tue bytieg
offepriog's sympathy. ‘The propert ame mine,
Willian Dele Rowover, waa obliged to fly the
couatry. A warrant was out agatost him, aod tn
hie absence, ho was Arraigned, prosecuted, found

llty—"

Sentenced t inquired Hvelina, leaning forward.
Aye, and such is the vaunted justice of English
Inw—erecuted !”

Agroan of horror burst from thelr pals Tips, and
Lady Betting hid her face in a variegated bandopna.

“Sometime after this,” Lady Bettinnawent on, “I
married Sir Lionel, who yesterday informed me that
hie wile was atill living, He haa goneaway to week
her. I hope soon to have tidings of her decease,"

“Mamma,” said Agneala, “we, too, have some
what to confide In you. Are you strong enough to
bear itt”

Lady Bettina filled up 9 allver goblet with spark-
ling cau de vie, and drank it off at one draught.

Tam ready.”

“We,” began Agnesia, are—"

“Break it gently,” remonstrated Lady Evelina.

“YT will)’ returoed her sister, “ Mamma, we ore
nol your daughters,

“YT suspected ss much," murmured the Countess.

HUMORS OF THE WAR.

Convensarion av Yiogsnina.—The high stnge
of the Mirsiesippi enables bonta to be rowed on the
Inside of tho bank or outer levee. Recently, Gen.
Stuart ond a small party went on the other bank,
apposite Vicksburg, for, reconnoltring ” purposes.
Tho river io leon than. three-fourths Of a mile. ta
width. Walle there, the following laconio dislogue
occurred aoroas the rlver:

“How aro you, rebel”
j{tGot any mote Queens of the Weit to tend
down?

“Plenty. How io the Indianola?"

“Allright, you darned Yankee,”

“Got any whisky 2”

“Not a drop."

\ Come halfway and Dil glve you » canteen full!

«What regiment do you belong to?”

“Eighth Missouri,” at

\Needn't come over—no chickens hero.”’

Soms ofllcers, perhaps a little envioukof bis good
luck, were abusing a. brother oiliter who had been
receatly promoted, “Why, what hag B. donet”
paid a mutual acqualotance, joining the group. “Oh,
replied a waggish Hleutenant, “ his olfynce fe rank !
Boston Transcript. \

Sommmopy seke why Charleston and Mobile are
to bo simultancously attacked. The answer la very
plain: Our Government wishea to settle the revel
account by double entry.

Tnx Federal rams on the Misslealppl are of tho
Southdown species.

How To Proovne a Husnann. hould any of
our fair readera who may desire to get married bo
20 unfortunate ax not to secure n partner for life, we
commend to them the following novel Way of pro-
curing § husband, belleving aa we do, thate little
atratezy of a eimilar kind would accomplish the de
sired end.

The following true ato!
matter for a little com
written. It is generally the ene that the more beau-
tiful and the richer s young female is, the more ditf-
cult are both her parents and herself In the choice of
‘5 husband, and the more offera they refuse. The one
is too tall, the other too short; this not wealthy, that
not respectable enough. Mesowhile, one spring
passes after another, and year after year carries
Away leaf after leaf of the bloom of youth, and op-
portunity after opportunity. Mits Harriet Selwood
‘was the richest heiress in her patiye town; but she
had already completed her twenty-seveoth year, and
beheld almost all her young friends united to men
whom she had at one time or another discarded,
Harriet began to be set down for an old maid. Her

arents became really uneasy, and ahe herself lamen-
tein private a position which is not s natural one,
aud to which those to whom onture and fortune
ave been niggardly of their gifts are obliged to sub-
mit; but Harriet, as we have said, was both hand-
some and very rich, Such was the atate of things
when her uncle, wealthy merchant, came on a

might, perhapa, furnjeh
nif contedies were ai

Fisitto her parenta, He wasn jovial, lively, straight-
forward man, necustomed to attack all difficulties
boldly and coolly.

‘ou sec,” sald her father to him one day, ‘ Har-
riet continues single. The girl ia handsome; what
she is to have for her fortune you know; even in
this reandal-loving town, not a cresture can breathe
the slightest imputation against her; and yet ahe te
getting to be an old mald.’"

w'True,! replied the uncle; but look you, bro
ther, the grand point in every aifsin in the world ta
to selze the right moment; this you have not done—
it fe misfortuve ; but let the girl go slong with me,
nd before the end of three months I will return het
to sa) as the wile of a man ss young and a5 wealthy
‘as herself.”

‘Away went the niece with the uncle. On the way
home he thus addressed her

“Mind what I am going te say. You are no lon-
ger Mina Selwood, but Mira. Lumley, my anlece,

‘oung, wealthy, childless widow. You had the mia.

fortune to lose your huaband, Gol. Lumley, after
happy union of a quarter of n yesr, by a fall from his
horae,”"

“But, uncle—"

‘Tet’ me manage, if you please, Mra, Lumley.
Your father has Invested me with full powera. Here,
took you, 1s the wediling rig given you by your Iste
husband.’ Jewels, snd whatever else you need, your
aunt will supply you with; and accustom yourself
to cast down your eyes.”

The keen-witted uncle introduced his niece every-
where, and the young widow exolted a vat Benst
tion, ‘The gentlemen thronged about ore ‘and abe
noon had her cholce out of twenty suitors, ' Her un-
clo advised her take the onc who was deepest in love
with her, and a rare chance decreed that this should
be precisely the most amiable and opulent. The
match was Boon concluded, and one day the uincle de~
aired to say n few words to his future nephew In pri-
vate.

“My dear air,” he began, “wo have told you an
untruth’?

“How aot Are Mra. Lumley’s affections—"

“Nothing of the kind. My niece ia sincerely at-
tached to you.’

“Then her fortune, I auppose, is not equal to what
you told me 1”

“On the contrary, it is larger.”

“Well, what is the matter, then?!

“A joke, sn innocent joke, which came into my
head one day when Iwas in a good humor—we could
Rok well recall it afterward. ly. niece {a not a wie

low."

‘What! is Col. Lumley living 1"

No, no; she is a ay inster.

‘The lover protested that ho was a happler fellow
than he had concelved himself; and the old maid
was forthwith metamorphosed into a young wife,

A Toap's TorLyr.
nw @ toad undres!

—Audubon relates that he once
Ho commenced by
bie ing his elbows hard against his sides, and rub-
bing dowawards. After # few amart rubs, his aides
began to burst open along his back. He kept on
rubbing until he had worked pll his skin toto folds
on his sides and hips; then, grasping ono hind leg
with both his hands, he hauled off one leg of his,
pants the same na anybody would, then stripped the
other hind-leg tn the anme was. He then took this
cast-off cuticle forward, botwecn hia fore-legs, into
his mouth, And swallowed it; thea, by ralsing and
lowering Kis head, awallow!ng as’ his head came
down, he stripped off the skin underneath watil it
came to his fore-legs, and thea grasping one of these
with the oppoaite hand, conalderable pulling stripped
off tho skin; chsoging hands he stripped the other,
and by a slight motion of the head, And, all the while
swallowing, he drew it from the neck, ani swallowed
the whole,

Ansuorivis are to Downs what pepper salt, mua
tard, vinegar, aygar, molasnes, butter ‘and other cons
iments aro to the food we eat—very good in mode
ration, and when appropriately applied. But when
HAR UARS {8 oversensoned with them, or they are in-
aptly used, the dish of wondd is spoiled, Sometimes
we lull the finvor of a vigorous substantive with 4
heap of Unsuitable prefixes, aa a vulgar cook might
destroy the natural savor of a besfstesk with an
Avalanche of onions. Thus {t is not an uncommon
thing to hear suoh phrasea so ‘elegant weather,”

“awful funny,” “powerful pretty,’ ‘monstrous
polite,” lovely: Kouies)"“beautttul: medicine,”
' ridiculous (meaning outrageous) conduct,” "mage
nificent potatoes,” Xo, &c, Itis a great ti) ale
ways to drop the Tight word into the TAB place.
Worda are things. Weigh their meaning before you
use them.

Tay, WaTRR Lity.—It ts 9 marvel whence this
perfect flower derives ita loveliness and perfume,
springing aa it doed from the black: mud over whicl,
the rlver sleeps, and whore lurie the slimy eel and
speckled frog, and the mud-turtle, Whom continued
Washing candot cleanse, It is the yery same black
mud out of which tho yellow lilly sucks ita obscene
life nnd nolsome odor, Thus we see, too, in the
world, that some persons ssslmilate only What is

nd evil! rom the same moral ciroumstances

ugl
whlon supply good and beautiful results —tho (rae

making » great saving of fuel. In planing or aaw- Aad feell: rightt o tell all mea so ance of celestial lowers—to the daily life of oth-
{Bonrd they pluie or aaw toward themselves | Iv aot the corse or youre Conunne con Ad, Poa, .
Pa ©: Tees . ;
Py = > ah

~— nT 77

AGRICULTURAL.

THE MOISTURE OF MIDNIGHT.
The form of motsture known as dew arises from,
the deposition of water previously existing in the
atmosphere as aqueous vapor, which Js deprived of
its.vaporous shapo by contact with colder bodles,
Grasa and leaves arrivent lower temperature than
the clreugyjacent air in the following manner: All
bodies are constantly radiating heat, and thelr tem-
eratures can only remain constant by thelr recely-
ng from other objects as many rays of heat as they
emit. The temperature of a substance situated 80-8
to radinte n greater number of calorific rays than it
recelves, must fall; such is the condition of grass
Teaves, and substances of this sort, on the surtace ol
the earth ; ona clear evening their rays of hen’ are
emitted Into the nir, anil lost In space, ns nothing Is
prescatIn tho atmosphere to exchange raye with
Them. Ifa thermometer be placed upon a grass
plot, on a clear balmy eveoiug, it will frequently in-
Uieate n temperature from ten to fifteen degrees low-
er than that of the surrounding sir; but the thinnest
cambrle handkerchief held stretched nbove it, will,
by exchanging raya of heat with the adj

cause the thermometer to inark an incre:
erature, ‘he pnasnge ofa thick cloud over the spot
Wil be followed by the same result. But on a clear

evening, as the onlorific rays of grass nnd Jeaves be-
come dissipated, thelr temperature naturally di-
nuniehes, and falls below that of the surrounding
alr, and some of the aqueous vapor therein is conver-
ted into water by coatact with the grass or other
bodies whoee heat has thus been dissipated.

Grass, wood, leaves, And filamentous substances
are good radintors, anit consequently dew ia usually
deposited upon them, but rarely upon smooth stones
or sands, for two reasons—tirat! onuse the latter
‘are not good railintors ; and secondly, because tome
of the heat lost by radiation {a reatored by their con-
tact with the earth, Thin clothes are also good ra-
iators ; an Campbell correotly ays:

The dew on hia thin robe was heavy and chill ;

For bie country he slghed when at twilight repale
oe

To wander alone by the wind-beaten hill.

‘As the most copious deposit of dew takes place
when thewenthor i clear andserene, the poct, when
‘using the epithet, “wind-beating,’’ refers, no doubt,
to the general character of the hill, and not to the
atate of the evening.

At the timo athe vapor is being condensed or
converted into dew, it communicates to the nod
effecting the conversion the whole of ite Latent heat,
which ls a0 very considerable, that it would be suf.
cient to raise nine hundred and. fifty times the weight
of water condensed {ato dew one degree of Fabren-
helt, or more thna five thines that welght of water
from the {reezing-point to thebolling-polat. Incredl-
ble as this may seem, it must actually happen, nnd
the whole of this vast amount of heat must be disai-

ated by the aubstances on which any dew Is depost-
fea before the deposition can proceed. This enables
us to form some conception of the prodigious power
of radiation posseased by dew-conlensing plants, Tt
hlso presents water to us aga sort of what may be
termed heat or caloric regulator, for when water is
converted into vapor or steam, it absorhs precieely
the same amount of heat as ia" [berated on tho con
densation of steam or vapor Sato water ; thus, when
the weather is very hot, large quantities of water
are converted Into yapor, thereby withdrawing or
rendering latent « vast amount of heat, which might
Otherwise prove injurious to snimal ‘or vegetable
Ife. On the other hand, by being condeneed tate
dew, 1f reatorea to vegetables that heat which they
had dissipated by radiation, aod which, but for such
Featoration, malght poralbly operate to impatr or d
atroy thelr vitsi functions. This is one rearon why
places near the sea are always niore temperate ; that
Is, enjoy x more equable climate than those renote
from it.

‘The reason why water distilled from aqueous vae
pors on the leaves of plants takes the form known as

of particles of ‘water for exch other, termed cohesion;
nll the force of gravity, or Ite awn'welght. Durlog
the earlleat perlail of the deposition of dew, the first
force, or that of ndhesion, predominates, aid a thin
{im of moleture {3 spread’ evenly over the whole ra-
Uinting surface, or perhaps it would be more correst
tony, is aprenil all over the surface proportionably
to the radinting power of ite aeveral parts. As the
Ueposition progresses and more water Is distilled,
the second force, or that of cohesion, aseerts its In=
fluence, and this thin film of water is broken up into
a number of minute globules; these gradually in-
crease (n slze as aiore water fe condensed ; and the
third force, the force of gravity, or the weight of the
dew, begins to be sensibly fat which at last over-
coming the force of adhesion, the poor little globulea
arc ruthlessly tora from the lent or radiating aurface,
‘and fall dishonored to the ground. Some few, how-
over, glide to a point in the leaf or blade of ' erase
where the foree of adhesion favored by some accl-
dents of surface, successfully renews the struggle
with tho force of gravity, and the fortunste little
globules ore sustained aloft. ‘The three forces are
now in atable equilibrium, the second, or that of co-
healon, being locally predominant, which results in
a brightlittle pearly sphere clear naa diamond ; and
thus, in our morning walks, our eyes ore dazzled by
Night's jeweled gifts to Nature.

“PorsoniNo THE KtNo's LANps."”—Itls Intoleras
ble that the indolent farmer should be permitted to
polaon his neighbor's flelds. If he lslost tonll senso
of the injury he inflicts upon his own produce, he
should be coerced to extirpate these enemies for the
sake of others, whose property aod Iabor are deterio-
rated by his carclesoness. Alexander IT. of Scotland
denounced that man to bea traitor "who polsons
the king’s Ianda with weeds, and Introduces thereby
host of enemics.”” And it |e sald that whoever wan
found to have three heads of the common atanwort
among hia corn was fined aaheep for each atalk. In
Denmark the farmers are bound by law to destroy
the corn-marigold ; and in France a farmer may sue
his neighbor who ‘neglecta to eradicate the thiatles
upon hia land at the proper season, In Australia a
similar reguistion has been imposed by legislative
nuthority, with, It is said, the most beneficial results.
In Cannda, we believe, enactments have been issued
against lowing thistles to ripen oa the road-siles
And exposed public situations, both from the legisla-
tive and township corporations.—Ivid,

RyARiNo OANAanies.—A correspondent of the
Lmidon Field anys: “My pale of lizard canaries have

jccess{ully reared every bird they hatohed this sea-
mn, and aut of fourteen eggs they hatehed eleven.
This was iy management: Tkept them ina com-
mon breeding cage in a amali room that faced the
morning sun, (an Important matter for young birds),
and from the time they paired T gave them daily
mixture of finely-chopped hard-boiled egg and moist
bread, sprinkled with maw-seed ; taking special care
that this food should never be given in a sour state;
They had also plenty of water-cresses, old mortar
to peck at, anil cannry, rape, and linseed, both boiled
nnd raw, with groste occasionally, ‘They fed thelr
oung onea at their own discretion with this fool. T
Kept them very clean, aa. they were tame enough to
bear good deal of Wwell-meant disturbance. | M
bints were nover troubled with insects ; If they ha‘
been, I would haye put them {nto « new cage, and
given the oll one a gond tealding in boiling water,
‘and then a thorough scrubbing with soap.”

Srrive WieAt.—The past winter tins been a se-
vero one on winter wheat, though it Js yet too early
to judge of the full effect of the injury. Perhaps it
wiil be wise to cow considerable spring wheat, though
the product Last season was lees than was anticipar
ted from: its growth, owing to the aphis and midge.
It Is more certain to succeed If sown very early—as
soon av the ground is in ft conditiog. for working,
Sown on cora-stubble or after potatoes, the ground
need not be ploughed very deeply ; a gang-plough is
autlictent for the work, Good soll, with good seed
and plenty of it—aore, Wwe think, than has usually
eon wown—will be likely to sectire a good crop. If
the soll Is not euiticiently rich,» light drenslng of
well-rotted compost, or of old ‘leached ashes, har
rowed in with the seed, will give the needed stimu-
Innt.—Country Gentleman.

Dwanr ArrLes.—To any of our readera who may
be dlacouraged writh dwarf pears, we woul) recom
mend a trial of dwarf apples. They are produced by
grating, the ordinary. apples on. the Prrndise, or
youcin stock, And here llea an advantage or two ;
ne does not have to wait and carefully experiment,
a with pears, to find out what kinds will succeed ai
dwarfs, what need double working, eto. Take any
‘sort desired, and, (f properly grafted, it will suce
‘and be fruitiul much earlier than the common apple-
tree. Those grafted on the Doucin stock will usually
fruit the fourth yenr, and thoac on the Paradise the
thinl year. Fire-blight, sap-blight, and hard winters
seldom trouble the dwarf apple.—Am. Agricullurist,

VENTILATION oF STANLES.—If n horse be encased
fo nail sack, enclosing the whole body, but leaving
the head free, the alk belng varnished ‘so as to ex-
elude air, the'animal will die in twenty hours. Ever
pour of the akio is an ererefory orga, wail parts wit!
gareous products; If these remain about the antimal
kn endocmose action dccurs, and these gasea are taken
up by the system, caualng death,

‘The samo fscté oceur In a degree in badly-ventiln-

ted stables ; openings should occur above to. Iet out
noxious gases on the first ascent, while heated, and.
the corresponding openings below should be o di-
yiued as not to produce cllrrents of air while they
re-supply the waste,
Boxws.—The bones that accumulate about the
farm shoul all be saved, and thero are many me
thods of preparing them for use In an economical
manner, Among theae are treating thom with acid,
20 ne to form n home-made superphosphate ; burning
‘them, when they can readily be crushed; dissolving
them’ia strong ley, and also fermenting by brenking
them in pleces, anil then packing them in layers of
muck, nnd turing on liquid manures to keep them
tmolet and also rendering them soft by placing them
in horse manurewhen it is in n heating state. These
should be applied under the surface, rather than upon
{t—-AMaine Farmer,

EXTRAORDINARY PROPAGATION oF Wexs—
Few are aware how strangely prolitic are these pest
Professor Buckman, by the most. careful experl-
ments, ascertained that single plant of the com-
mon graundsel will produce 6,500 seeds in. one sum
mer. The graceful corn-cockle sheds 2,000 produc
tive seeda j snd the red poppy, which alversifies the
cornfields of the chalk and lmestones of England,
roduices 60,000 minute but vital seeds. The &
fuistle branches out into the wind its 20,000 osay
ysrachutes, bearing the germinating earlike speck,
Yogundulate with every breath of alr, and take roo
far away, ‘The common dock lets fall ite 13,000 solid
‘ains, each destined to shoot down sn exhaustive
{op-root into the soll. Dandelion [rotaces nearly
3,000 seed, each furnished with an inimitable appa-
rhtus for a distant flight. The cow parsnip, if neg-
lected, will produce 6,000 planta; the meadow seabl-
our, 4,000; the May-\weed, 45,000; the daisy, 13,600,
Nor is tt auticlent to cut down thelr bearing'pianta,
anil leave thera to dry on the dung besp or wither on
the ground, ‘The asp in the stem and leavea of the
cut-lowa plantaatill mounts up to and nourishes the

deir, depends upon the combined and contemporanc-
‘us action of three several nnd distinct forces, which
are all operating during {ts formation, Tho threo |
foreea arc—tho mutual attraction between the dew
‘and the surface of the leaf or ance upon which
It is deposited, called adhesion; the mutual attraction

seed. Nor is thelr woodrous vitality less remarka- |
ble. If the ground be trenched three or four feet |
wep, there willfappear upon the surface a dense |
crop of weeds, of waliferent kind frog any observed

before. They tiny have beca hidden for sges, but |
whon exposed to-the alr and raio and sun the Little
speck of vitality within germinntos, as if the seed

had freebly fallen. No Iltits can be asaigned tozhe

vital durablilty of some kinds of seeda, when burled

deeply in the ground, and not stimulated by the ae

tion of heat, moisture, ani atmospheric Air.—l/e-

Honal Agriculburtst,

Drury Prosoiino vor Corn.—We not only be-

Heve in deep ploughing for corn, but in tho use of

tho largeat olzed eubsoil lifting plough to‘ stciko

out” for corn, as by this means we not only deepen

the eoll Immettiately wmder tho seed, but nt the same

time prepaco a mass of loose cart iu which the cooks

may ramlfy ao aa to accurebetter after results—I¥ork-

try Former.

THE MONEY MARKET,

Parvapecrara, April, 1543
‘There waa a goneral disposition to sall gold to-day,
which caused a dowarward movementof theprles. Opan~
Sng at 151, it fell off gradually to MSN, with & heavy
market, To what causes thlyfsdae, ta the fses of our
Juck of milltury waccoss, Is parhaps hard to say. Tho
continued success of Goverament loans, tho varsing
Prospacts of the Now York bill azalust loans, and the
promlco of immediate moyeruvots by var armies, all
have au eifeeton the slde of the Bears, who ara bard at
work—the most active and extensive of whom Is, per-
bapa, the Goveramont. xt ’

Old cortificates of Indeblednés! rose S por cent. being
pow worth ION a 102 Sixoa of I8f1 ara strong at 108,
April and October sevea-thirties at 101% 2 105. Money
continues to exhibit the camo overfallness as obaracter-
trod It daring last week.

Subseriptions to the new nstional Dve-twanty sixes ex-
ceeded ono million dollars today ap to4o'clock P. M.
‘Wo hear frequent coinplaints of the notice that bus been
given that tho right to convert the legal-tonders into
five-twentles will coasa on the Iet of July, 19% Section
Gof thy loan act of 1883 enys

* Abd tho holdors of United States notes txaned vader,
nod by virtue of ald ucts wball presont the eame for thal
Burpose of uxehanging thy samo for booda, aa herela pro-
Vided, on or beforatho Bret day of July, isst, aud there:
‘ficr ‘the right 40 to exchange the sama shall ceate and

The stock market was active, with prices Ieoking ap-
ward, Governments wer Drm, Stato Aves ron
New elty sixes were weady at 11; this old at 108%
Pennsylvania Batlroad secoud mortgages rose by. Read
{ag rixes 1860 sold at 14: Hantingdon and Leoad Top
second morlgages at $3: 100 was bld for Bimira sevens;
Wor North Poonyylvania sixes, Susquehoace Canal
sixes old at 48%; Sobaylkill Navigation wixas 1852 at
TANi—an advaneo of

Reading Bank shares were In demsnd, at an ailyanca
of 4; Philadelphia, ond Erie now certifieatea st 23h—
aboat tha same as Satarday: Catawissa preferred gold
at 284; Elmira preferred rove 1; Mueblll advanced 1;
Ponnsylvanls 4: Little Schuylkill was steady: ut 45%:
Caralen and Atlaatle preferred was active, and rose to
18; Camdon and Amboy gold ot 165, the common rold nt
94; 1U5 was bid for North Penney lvania; 92 (or Long
Island. Passeoger Railways wero more netlvo: Rid
Avonue sold st 17%: Green and Coates at 4%: Rneo and
Vine at 10; Girard College at 2514; 95 was bid for Arcb:
LS for Sprace aud Pins; & for West Philadelphia.

Echaylkill Navigation common cold st THs the pro-
ferred row to 18; Wyoming advanced Nx Dolaware Di-
virion sold at 48: Morris Cooal at 65; Hazleton Coal at
05; 6S was bid tor Lebigh Navigation: 43 pala for the
actip, :

Mechanics’ Bane sold at 27

Mannfacturors’ and M

chanics’ at 2532; Commorelal et 6214; Northero Baok
Kentucky at 102 Tho murket clovod frm, #15900 to
| bonds aug 7,800 sbares changing hunds,

Droxel & Co. quote:
aited States Bonds 11
Halted States Certificates
Taited Statos 7410 Novos

‘vermasters’ Voucher
ra for Curtideates of

ING
wid aN
1a

PHILADELPHIA MARKETS.

Arnie 81, 13d

Tho unsettled state of the Gold market continnes
to operato unfavorably on buslnest qeaorally, aud
trade in all deparlweots bas beon very dull’ thls
Week, Bark 1s steady and drm. Floar is very dal
Thera Is very little doing 1a Rye Flour or Cora Meif
Wheat is firmly held. Rye, Gora, nod Oats are Ind
mand, Candies aredall, Coals more setlve,. There ls
Uittlo Coifeo in frst bnads, and the market ledall. Su-
xarsad Molasses are firmer, Cotton i Broer, but there
Is very little dolog at the advance. Drogsand Dyes—
therein very little dolag. Feathersare quiet, Fraitare
doll. There {s more forego arriving. [2 Domestic
there 1s yery Ittlo dolog. Hemp and Hidds aro po-
chapged. The from market ls very qulot, Lutnber is lp
falr ruqavst, Thero {s very little doing im Naval Stores
Spirits of Tarpantine Is rather better. Olle—thera le
Very little doing. Provisions aro held firmly, but there
avery little doing. Scods ara doll. Ries aud Saltaro
unchanged. Theto I» more Tobacco coming in. Woot
is very anlet.

Tu Dry Goods there in uo now featare, and business it
very dull for both Woolen and colton goods,

Tho Flour market (¢ dal) and unsettled, with but it~
tedemand forexport.. Sales for shipment reach gboot
5.00 barrels, Incladiog Western family at shout 7.20;
Lancastor county do at 87.75: and chica Oblo st #S.
Tne sales 10 the retailers wad bakers are moderate,
Tapping at from 805.95 for suparine, 86 007 for ox”
Trey SALVO. 73 for oxtra family, and 8825.75 ‘Tor
foncy brands gecording to Quality," Rye Plour~ Thor
Ie niore demand, wilh ates of 40 barrels at BL 73 &

Fel. Corn Meal Is galet:, 200 barrels. Jersey cold at
BLD” Braudy wine is bell at 94.60 barrel

GHAIN ~The receipts aud rales of Wheat have been
moderato this well, will sales of 31,000 Dusbels fair aad
Prime Pennsylvania red at #1 a2] 3 8 Tush, choles
Rmber doat $170, oud, white a8). 7021.00 8 bushel
Rye cuptinges eearen: Pennsylvania’ sells om areivsl al
SLOSOL WP bushel. Corn Isiacdomand: with sales of
yoni bashele prims yellow at 8G920 B bushel, adost
aad tn the ¢ Oats are scares
{tnd I good resjarat; rales comorlss about 45.09) bushels
pra t

elnes Inst wok,
With estes of 20 bbls st S14 for old, aud $1
for new, City packed Moss Beof le worth 81:
bbla Western sold at $1240; and 100 tlercas
con—Hams are In deinxod, with sles of 900

tes al 8@l0e for plata, aud 102s. for eauvassed: wide
We Gh@Tue, sud shoulders ae G@6Ke.. Grecn Meats
‘Tho receipis aro light, With sales of plekled hans at
Sues dp In walt at 72sec; aides A oy@ONe: aud

Sovamd casks nt GUG@sue DM cathe
i demand, with sales of 20 tes
aye AP, Keng mammal wayne NC
ge sold aU uaHOe

‘ith staal sa

Chi

duit at s@le By

MBTALS.—Pig Ito
of No. B
GS ton, cash.
Blooms 'are scarce,

cont

in Seatch Pig
Manufactured fron
ly Urinse, with moderate sales of bars and rats at $08
for the former, Lord—Tho stock continues lght:
sales of 2000 ples Galooa ary reported om terms kwpl
riyate, Copper—Wo bear of uo sales of Sheathing

email, aLg0@3.19 for oe former, ane. A1.702 for tee
Ra iatter (or reeleaned

dG eeetinr Gotior, and aboct 1.(6)bhda, mostly
Cate Abye brea sold at O@Ile, OB thee, aad LID
Bags ara otc, fariaoath

RITS There {every little taaalr
Brandy ori, Bak they nee bald rs vB Homie

dy OFeane Gigatlon. Whisky { duils sales
Fee ne Tat, ute are: making ab AT@Me, bhay 2
Jide aod dradgo tee 8 xallon

1 alther

eter idta"ingulzed for; ales of ley-roa-
de UST jd ountry at 106 9
FS ee tt ure Routacky ad Ponaéyl-

vanla Seed Leaf coming In.” A. small Lot of Mason Come

Tagyeahinplg Rabacen kd ate, ae aly
DOL contlones very dally acd? neleas ope meat

pomlaal, with nail als of Flee at 282 ¥ th can,

for cotton to Hee quality

‘Pha fallowing see the recolpts of Gourand grain at this

rt during thi Fast week
hake ees 10,700 bbls.
Wheat.” SE pa
Gorn --- ak
Oate ili1%0 baa.

PHILADELPHIA CATTLE MARKET.

Purnapgurnra, April 2, 1863.
Tha arrivals and rales of Phillips’ Avena
Drova Yard reach about 1,40 head this wook. The

market $4 dail, and prices hava declined, ranglog at
from ILY@105 for uxtra stoars, 10K@U for kool do, and
S410 for common, as to quality

Choles eattle sold early in the day at om blxliost
Sqarers bel common to Ilr quailty at tky close wens
Perzadae aut alos Were tadeat Lower pros thas fa
abave,

I good Western stoors were shipped to Now Fork.

ite sth cuioans felon Feactab yah 13) ad,
at from S15 up to 310 pet beady asto aaallty

eur =Teomgarket fodall with aos 2f 480 bead,

sf xross for wool shee

Moun —the Srrivals and sale reach otont 4,590 head
gpl arcok wily at fom $789 po 0) Tbs sets mar iok

"The eattlo on sale to-day are (com the following States =

Foo bead (rom Poaasylvanis.

Hid Bead from Hiltaote

12a ead fos Oo

ad from Delaware

Fuller & Martian, 1b) Weston Stoors, selling at 293
Tne for comunan (3 wood quality.

‘Htiiaas X Shambore, Wo Western Steers, salllag ab
from $8 806 for common, and 910 HDI for good aus

ity,

P Hothoway. 70 Lancaster county Stora, ealling a
from SIL@LE OA for fale to extra

Joues Bie tess, 27 Western Steers, selling at from 19D
Ue fur fale £0 805

Sloxander keonedy, 23 Lancatter county Stosrs, eall-
dog at frou) 1@11e far tale quality.
aaa, g Slthe ,Ullbots Bienes, selling at Grom
[0 G03 12, 6) for tale to axtee

Smith & Kies, 73 Western stoora, selling pt from 3109
12H for fake to extra.

“mith & Bloouey, illnols tears, selling at from
11012 09 for lait 13 oxtra. =
tors #028 32 lltaoisstoors, walling a from S11@12
for ond to extra

Pe MePilloa, Lancaster eoanty steare, seUing at (rom
SU@1E CO for fale fo extra quality

COWS AND CALVES.

Tho arrivals and sales of cows at Phillip’ Avoama
Drove Yard ate large this week, reuchlogubont 10 head
felling af from SINGH (or sprinzert, nod RUD A bead
for cow aud calf, arcording te qisiliy. Old Team cows ara
tolling at from S1°Cb10 B bead, aa lo condition
a {nega sold'st Phlilip's Avenne Drove
Yard, at from 4@334c. 8 Jb for Arst quailty, aud S349
for second do, as {9 srelebt and condition.

THE SHEEP MARNST.
Ales of Shevp at Phillip:

Bs

rivals aud
Yard reach LA bead,
i for lower prices,

Avanao
harket is dull, boy
ry maklug at SB

H gros for wool Sheep Ge for ellpped, 0e=
Sulliion Aud qaality. Stock Shoap are sell
Tag a, fromm S1G4 4) head, a4 to quality.
THE 1Od MARKET,

The nrrivals aud sales of Hogs at the Avenue, Union,
ne Son Drorg Yards reach 4100 bead. The

Yedull, and prices lower, ranglax at f

100 tbs be

3.000 hesd sold at Hoary Glass! Uplon Drove,

(euecomoe te H, G. Imbot,) a from $7 op to

Benet &

1,000 be

ret

daold att

BRIDGE CATTLE MARKET, Aprlt 16 Whole
about 40 Hears, hod
Wein Oxen aad siteh Coir

Extra. © rst anality, #3
tT third quality, $5.

threo-years

1,£00 at markyt, prlens in Lote
F from 4, 9%e B Mh,

t quality Inelash
stall fed Oxon Second
Ireludes the fed Oxen, the beet stall-Le
od tha best threeyear old Steere. Ordinary consists
Of Balle, and tho rafase of lots.

Sheap Includes Cossels, aud when thosa of taferlox
agulity are thrown out.

‘Thore wwere — cars over the Grand Trank ond Bastera
Rallroad: Svovor the Boston and Lowall, and 82 ovat
the Fiteb bar

Remarks
as last week, battha quality was much better: tha bast
old for $o@9.50 @ 100 Ibs, aad two pairs of very superior
Cattle from Sbelbatue ware soldyey Mr. Jonea for 310
10) Ms. Sheep sold about the same as last week, trom
FGCU RB Me Sabin sold one lot of 200 abeared for

phot was about the gama number of Cattla

dhe

BRIGHTON CATTLE MARKET, April 19.—At inaricat
BO Beaves, $0 Stores, 1.0 Sheep and Lambs, and 1,000
wel

Prices—Market Beef—Extra 40@9.00: Ort quality
4,20\ cond quality 7s, thled quality sags)

‘Working Oxea—sloy, 8121, 812

Mileh Cowws-SiGi043! cominoa do $2102.

Veal Calves 879

Yung wows toro years old SADA; tare yeaon
old S39

Hiden bis@e BM Calf Skins — WM,

Tallow Seate Bib.

Pets 8200

Spring Pins Wholesale 44@5Ko: retail 67e,

Hoover are nold by tho bead at prices enol to tke valoa
Por the estimated weight uf Best le the quarter. to-
gethar with tho quarter, of two bide aad. tallow af
f

jesame pried, ata ehtinkage from live weight agrasd
on by theparties; varying from 23 lo St por cant
Retuarks.—Price of Beef boat samy os last weeks
quality much better; 69.60 10) Tha for extra Boots a
extra sold ns lah as $10 2 100 fs.

ow pairs very
Mugros sold to Me Thomas:
ab 8.60 BI) Ms, per coal
two Cattle, wolgbt 2,30 fhs, at $7.00, 3
Sheop sold taueb thw saraeas last wea
Swine remalnganchanged

Mr.
SB Cattle, weight 47,060 tba,
rink: ao to Hh Boxter
per cant: Bhria
The price of

CHIOAGO OATTLE MARKET—Arui 18.

# Carrie. —Thoro wasa falr supply of Beef Cattlo
on the market to-day, and the otferings were genurally.
of good quality, there belug ¢evoral very ehoten droves
of Stato and [ova steers among the arrivals. Under tha
Tadtaoocaf xu active shipplag demacd, and s liberal la
Quiry by Governmest contractors, ihe market was
Buoyant. andelosed frm at ao advance of fally com
yesterday's prices

Fons are in good demand and steady, although a fow
celocted lots, for the Ehilaetphis warket, brougs! o@
extreme outsida price. Salea wera:

Ft cane aioe ut o20 Ib six month
SEs eng ceth tates of 30 bide Ast No.1
me ae AU KS H ton. Tanners’ Bork te

‘Hein
with small wale Ada-

mamioat iaaiite € Io, and Talla at Lsg@lsge @ M

GOPEEE Indall:-mstoalt Involoe of Lawnayra bas ar
rivedine stock of Rilo ls vory light, with saloa of 20
[ngs at'su@gzep tb (or the latecr, wod'Lagaayra at sa)
GPA peach and {months

CONE Tho marker ty more active and supplies have
tncroised by ratiroad gud canal. Orders are, cominy In
hore freely from the Kust, had large suipments are ma-
king to the South forthe Government. We quote cargo
Salat 890-2 @ tho, ua beard, at Klekmoad.

COTHOA—“Themarket ix dull! but pricas have advanc-
ed Xie Wi sluoe Inst week, with sslesof 100 bales AMS:
Thou atareane G th cash, Closing very Inactive.

DRUGS AND DYES —Thers (sa hrmer feeling for
most Klade of Forsiqn, with wmall salerof Sodt Aad at
WNautie Bb, Tablgn Is worth SL720 88 Wor

i

FEATHERS aro but little Ingulted after; sales of good
Western at aire

SiSH “The demand for Mackorel Is Imited. | The
sore quoialleaste Bias foray as ATHDIL 0 ot
‘igre, AvAID for No. kG To tr medium, and
ad 24 Ra? or iran S‘Vkled Heprog tal at 82 20
@3.8), tho latter Sure for new bbls sold on private
Geime: Godonhvarestexdy- at $8.29 tbe 10D Tox

FRUIT “A carro of Mostinn Oranges and-bomons was
disposed of trout the wharf on private terms, Osten
Appian eenreo, aed all Mt Gad, aa geal
Dred Pratt {s auch more laguird afters sales of Apples
gee ad aapared Beacen at oa Wf for aaartes
and halves

FREIGHTS to Liverpool are nominal at as for dour;
$5084 for grain, aud 2a for heayy goods ‘To Lon
don tha rates are about the same. No further ongago-
monts of Petroleum have been reported. Among charters
tothe West Jodies wo notice a brig to the Windward
and return at 81,700: & British brig to Trintdad apd to-
turn at-42,600; a brig to Barbadocs and rolurn at $2,200.
For Con) the mes to Key West ara 9.00; Aspinyrall,
£0: Boston, $220; Pall River, £225, aad New York,
ELS ton, abd vessels scarce.

GINSENG is wearce, and ernde, If here, woald sell at

Me

‘QUANO isin better request and prices looking op:
adles of Peruvian at S¥@10) @ ton, aud Superphospbate
Of Mirae at 843047 0.

HEMP. —There fs nothing dolag and little or no stock
hore in first hands. but the market Ie dall aod unsettled

HIDESTare dul, “Au, tinport of Lagaarra and Porto
Cabello has arrived, vebieh retains uusold.

HOPS inect with a limited Inquiry at the recout de
cline. Sales of ret agrt Eastera and Western at 24038

ca

LUMBER 1 more inquired for. ns the bailding season
bas commenced, Yellow Pine ‘Sap Boards at

eae RH, An Plekets at $5.00? (0
BM. Acargoof Calals Lathe sold at $1.9, and one to
Arciva at 81 60 HAE,

MOLASGES, ~The market ls firmer sioco our last no-
tice, with wales of £00 bd Cuba. at 4c for elayed, and
Museovado at d@iée, on the asual credit, and some Ma-
iagzas on pelyata te

NAVAL STORES are very gulet Sales of common
Rosin at $34, and No, 2at #24035 @ bbl. Prices of Tar
and Pitch argentirely nominal. | Spirits of Turpentine ia
held with mtbar more Grmuess, but the demand fs limit
od at £2 05009 @ gallon,

OILS —The demand for Sperm and Whale continaes
very litnited, and prices are « shade lower. — Linsoed
Oita nnsottled, aad selling slowly at $1.80 8 ealion
Lard Oil moeets limited inquiry at the recent decline;
eales of No.1 winter atl, cash ‘Tho recolpts of Patras
Team eontlane large, and the demand fair; sales of 4.000
Dbls erade at 184 olde, wad S60 He for Inferior and. good

‘ad 2X0e for bonded. The following are. the re-
fcrade and reflued, at this port, during the past

14,350 barrels.
Se HOO

Resin ener
PLASTER. —The demand (s less activo; sales of soft at
85,25@5.00 @ ton.

RICE —There la very little stock Phere; sales of Ran-
R000 At TH@SNe, cash,

SALT —An [nvolco of 900 eacka Deacon's Ona has ar-
rived, aud sold on private terms; a small tmportation
remalos unsold,

SBEDS are dail, and tha sales of Glover aad Timothy.

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